India's Last Mughal Emperor Was Caught Tending a Garden
British Colonial India

India's Last Mughal Emperor Was Caught Tending a Garden

A deposed emperor with a price on his head hid for weeks in a tomb—and the British nearly walked past him because they were looking for a warrior, not a poet.

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British Colonial IndiaMughal Empire19th CenturySouth AsiaColonialismRebellionBahadur Shah ZafarPoetry and Power

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