The final page of the Mughal history in Delhi will be incomplete if it were not for these haunting words of the erstwhile BÃÂdshah SalÃÂmat, BahÃÂdur Shah `Zafar`. It is hard to fathom how someone who descended directly from the lineage of Taimur & Genghis Khan, was dethroned, imprisoned, deported & finally left to die away from his first & last love that was Delhi. In the aftermath of re-occupation of Delhi after the revolt of 1857, the British forces unleashed such a naked dance of death & destruction all over Delhi that it comprehensively ended the living ethos of the city itself.
The emperor who had unwillingly agreed to be the face of the armed revolt was made the scapegoat & with his departure ended the 332 years of Mughal rule in India. His last wish that remained unfulfilled was to be buried after his death in the precincts of Zafar Mahal in Delhi, which was the last monumental structure built as a summer palace during the fading years of the Mughal era.
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