noble_family bahadur shah ii
Bahadur Shah () ( 14 October 1643  27 February 1712 ), the seventh Mughal emperor of India , ruled from 1707 until his death in 1712 . Born Mu ' azzam , Shah was the third son of Aurangzeb with his Muslim Rajput wife Nawab Bai and the ___MASK84___ of Shah Jahan . In his youth , he conspired to overthrow his father and ascend to the throne a number of times . Shah ' s plans were intercepted by the emperor , who imprisoned him several times . From 1696 to 1707 , he was governor of Akbarabad ( later known as Agra ), Kabul and Lahore . Mirza Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor . He became the successor to his father , Akbar II with his death on 28 September 1837 . He used Zafar , ( translation : victory ) a part of his name , for his nom de plume ( takhallus ) as an Urdu poet , and wrote many Urdu ghazals . He was a nominal Emperor , as the ___MASK78___ existed in name only and his authority was limited only to the city of Delhi . Following his involvement in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 , the British exiled him to Rangoon in British - controlled Burma . The Turco - Mongol or Turko - Mongol tradition was a cultural synthesis that arose during the early 14th century , among the ruling elites of Mongol Empire successor states such as the Chagatai Khanate and Golden Horde . These elites adopted Turkic languages and different religions such as Buddhism and Islam , while retaining Mongol political and legal institutions . Many later Central Asian states drew heavily on this tradition , including the ___MASK91___ , the Kazakh Khanate , the Khanate of Kazan , the Nogai Khanate , the Crimean Khanate , and the Mughal Empire . Gwalior is a major city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and one of the Counter - magnet cities . Located south of Delhi , the capital city of India , Gwalior occupies a strategic location in the Gird region of India . The city and its fortress have been ruled by several historic northern Indian kingdoms . From the Tomars in the 13th century , it was passed on to the ___MASK78___ , then to the Maratha in 1754 , followed by the Scindia in 18th century . Ali Gauhar ( 25 June 1728  19 November 1806 ), historically known as Shah Alam II , the fifteenth Mughal Emperor , was the son of Alamgir II . Shah Alam II became the emperor of a crumbling ___MASK78___ , his power was so depleted during his reign that it led to a saying in Persian , " Sultanat - e - Shah Alam , Az Dilli ta Palam ", meaning , ' The kingdom of Shah Alam is from Delhi to Palam ', Palam being a suburb of Delhi . Akbar II ( 22 April 1760  28 September 1837 ), also known as " Akbar Shah II ", was the penultimate Mughal emperor of India . He reigned from 1806 to 1837 . He was the second son of Shah Alam II and the father of Bahadur Shah II . The ___MASK78___ or Mogul Empire , self - designated as Gurkani (" Grkniyn ", meaning " son - in - law "), was an empire in the Indian subcontinent , established and ruled by a Muslim dynasty of Chagatai Turco - Mongol origin from Central Asia . The dynasty , though ethnically Turco - Mongol , was Persianate in terms of culture . The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a rebellion in India against the rule of the British East India Company , that ran from May 1857 to July 1859 . The rebellion began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company ' s army on 10 May 1857 , in the cantonment of the town of Meerut , and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India , with the major hostilities confined to present - day Uttar Pradesh , western Bihar , northern Madhya Pradesh , and the Delhi region . The rebellion posed a considerable threat to East India Company power in that region , and was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858 . The rebellion has been known by many names , including the India ' s First War of Independence , Indian Mutiny , the Great Rebellion , the Indian Rebellion , the Revolt of 1857 , the Rebellion of 1857 , the Uprising of 1857 , the Sepoy Rebellion , the Indian Insurrection , and the Sepoy Mutiny .