Tomb of Bahadur Shah Zafar
Tomb of Bahadur Shah Zafar
Tomb of Bahadur Shah Zafar
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The final resting place of the exiled 18th-century Indian king.
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AsadKhan
Metro Manila, Philippines22 contributions
Nov 2022 • Friends
For someone from South Asia, visiting the Mazar of the last Mughal Emperor is a unique treat and a privilege. It has a lot of pathos and immensely saddening history behind it. It’s a reasonably well maintained Mazar in the basement car park of the local masjid/mosque.
Written 15 October 2023
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Suresh
18 contributions
May 2022
close to the Shwe Dagon Pagoda one can visit the resting place of the last Mughal emperor and his wife. well maintained place. can visit place for person interested in history. but the place fails to give you that feeling of loss or deja vu for an indian
Written 21 June 2022
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Shihab Uddin Ahamad
Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar49 contributions
Oct 2019
This is a must visit place to understand brutality of british and colonial pas. Bahadur Shah Zafar is the last Mughal King. he was been chained and exile to Myanmar from India. He died and buried in the place.
Written 14 April 2020
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Zarin S
Mumbai, India738 contributions
Jan 2020
Its the Dargah of Bahadur Shah Zafar. The place is worth a watch. Very clean and nice place. You can give offering if you feel like
Written 15 March 2020
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364tilley
Newmarket, UK439 contributions
Feb 2020
The Indian Mutiny (or the First war for Independence according to taste) chewed up this inoffensive poet and this is the last relic of him.
Written 12 March 2020
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Sundncr
Washington DC, DC1,114 contributions
Jan 2020
Located near the Shwedagon Pagoda, this mosque/shrine is an interesting part of Indian history. The building is well maintained and somber. There are three graves on the upper floor and the grave of Bahadur Shah on the bottom floor. It could be a quick visit on your tour of Rangoon. This grave is of the last Mughal emperor of India. Not much of territory when Bahadur Shah ruled, but he was the last of the Mughal rulers and it ended a chapter of Indian history. During the visit, the site sells some books on Bahadur Shah. Mr. Shah is also considered a poet and sufi philosopher besides being a monarch. So, this site is also considered holy. Be respectful on entry to the shrines and leave footwear at the steps. As empires are bound to crumble, this modest shrine is a metaphor of how one can fall from the heights of glory and nothing seems permanent in this world.
Written 2 January 2020
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arvind1000
Pune, India2,262 contributions
Nov 2019 • Friends
We walked to the tomb of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, who was exiled in Rangoon by the British after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Zafar's unassuming tomb is in a quiet avenue in Yangon not too far from the famous Shwedagon Pagoda. Zafar was not only the last Mughal but was a Urdu poet and is now revered as a Sufi saint. Worth visiting for those interested in history.
Written 27 November 2019
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Fidha
53 contributions
Sep 2019
For more than a century the last Mughal emperor was almost forgotten - but a chance finding of his grave helped resurrect the legacy of a man revered as a Sufi saint and one of the finest poets in the Urdu language.
Last Moghul King Bahadur Shah Zafar was a noted Urdu poet, having written a number of Urdu ghazals.
The emperor was tried for treason, imprisoned and exiled to other territory under British control, in what is now Myanmar (Burma).
He died in custody on 7 November aged 87 - but his poetry lived on. The pen name he used, Zafar, means victory.
Last Moghul King Bahadur Shah Zafar was a noted Urdu poet, having written a number of Urdu ghazals.
The emperor was tried for treason, imprisoned and exiled to other territory under British control, in what is now Myanmar (Burma).
He died in custody on 7 November aged 87 - but his poetry lived on. The pen name he used, Zafar, means victory.
Written 16 October 2019
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Savison
Kolkata (Calcutta), India94 contributions
Oct 2019
I felt very sad after visiting the Dargah of the Last Moghul Emperor of India. How he died in penury after being banished to Rangoon by the British.
A must-visit for every Indian visitor to Yangon.
A must-visit for every Indian visitor to Yangon.
Written 15 October 2019
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Mooo
Ankara, Türkiye29 contributions
Aug 2019 • Solo
Good place to visit and recalled how the great Mughul ended up. You can also pray in the mosque.
That's all for now
That's all for now
Written 31 August 2019
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