During their rule, Mughal emperors looted gold, jewellery and other precious stones and metals from India, making themselves ...

On the face of it, The Last Mughal could pass off as a history textbook, chronicling and detailing the events that brought an end to one of the greatest empires of all time. But if you read ...

One of the only known photographs of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, taken after his trial in 1858 For more than a century the last Mughal emperor was almost forgotten - but a chance finding of his grave ...

The last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II, also known as Zafar, died in a British prison in Burma in 1862. As the last of the dynastic line that extended back to the sixteenth century, he had in his ...

Aurangzeb’s formative years were shaped by the bloody, fratricidal dynamic of Mughal succession, with childhood competition among princes culminating in do-or-die struggles for kingship.

The crown of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, holds significant historical value and is currently part of the Royal Collection in London, where it remains an enduring symbol of India ...

Dalrymple's recreation of the city of Delhi under siege forms the monumental backdrop to the tragic figure of the eponymous monarch, the "last Mughal". Aged 82 and abidingly fond of the arts of ...

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 ...

His latest effort, The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857, takes the story into the 19th century, when a spontaneous rebellion against Britain's growing power and influence spelt doom ...