Buried in a Vegetable Garden: The Last Mughal Emperor
British Colonial India

Buried in a Vegetable Garden: The Last Mughal Emperor

Almost no one noticed when the last Mughal emperor died in a British prison in Burma in 1862—so far from Delhi that his passing barely registered.

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British IndiaMughal Empire19th CenturyColonialism1857 UprisingErasure of MemoryBahadur Shah ZafarSouth Asia

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