![]() ![]() Zafar was a mystic, poet and calligrapher of great charm and accomplishment, but his achievement was to nourish the talents of India's greatest love poet, Ghalib, and his rival, Zauq. But, despite this, he succeeded in creating around him a court culture of unparalleled brilliance, and, partly through his patronage, there took place in Delhi one of the greatest literary renaissances in Indian history. Zafar came late to the throne, succeeding his father only in 1838 when he was in his mid-60s and when it was already too late to reverse the inexorable political decline of the Mughals. ![]() Born in 1775, when the British were still clinging to the Indian shore, he had in his lifetime seen his dynasty reduced to humiliating insignificance and the British transform themselves from simple traders into the most powerful military force India had ever seen. B ahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor of Delhi, and one of the most talented, tolerant and likable of his remarkable dynasty. ![]()
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