#Bahadur shah zafar

[aashufta-sar]

How broken was Bahadur Shah Zafar when he said "Kitna hai badnaseeb Zafar dafan ke liye, do ghaz zameen bhi na mili kooye yaar mein"

[heavenlyyshecomes]

Night envelopes the city, covering it like a blanket. In the dim starlight roofs and houses and by-lanes lie asleep, wrapped in a restless slumber, breathing heavily as the heat becomes oppressive or shoots through the body like pain. In the courtyards, on the roofs, in the by-lanes, on the roads, men sleep on bare beds, half naked, tired after the sore day's labour. A few still walk on the otherwise deserted roads, hand in hand, talking; and some have jasmine garlands in their hands. The smell from the flowers escapes, scents a few yards of air around them and dies smothered by the heat.

—Ahmed Ali, Twilight in Delhi

[rajeevpradhan]

[stfu-gurl]

که دو ان حسرتوں سے کہیں اور جا بسیں اتنی جگہ کہاں ہے دل داغدار میں

Tell my desire to go and settle down elsewhere,

There is not enough room for them in my sorrowful heart.

- Bahadur Shah Zafar

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

I learned that there are historically rich families that aren’t rich today

Meet Sultana Begum:

She lives in a slum area of Howrah, India. She sells tea.

Now have a look at these pictures:

These monuments are made by Mughals.

Sultana Begum is the wife of the great-grandson of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar.

[mybeingthere]

Bahadur Shah Zafar II (1775-1862), Scorpion calligraphy, ink and gouache on paper, mid 19th Century.

[umairaayyy]

" کہہ دو ان حسرتوں سے کہیں اور جا بسیں "

" اتنی جگہ کہاں ہے دل داغدار میں

Tell my desire to go and settle down elsewhere,

There is not enough room for them in my sorrowful heart.

- Bahadur Shah Zafar

[curtwilde]

This is only for emperors, if you are going for Someone Else they have to have been an emperor at some point. So no Dara Shukoh or any of the queens. I might make a different poll for the queens if this takes off.

Don't vote on the basis of politics - they were all objectively bad people and this is a fun poll. Vote for who you think is the most blorbo and/or who you think you can fix etc.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

by Arvind Balaram | Over the years, Ramchandra led dozens of others to Christ, including future church leader Tara Chand. It is said that even the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar summoned Ramchandra to dissuade him from becoming a Christian. However, this only led to one of the Emperor’s servants coming to faith in Christ. Ramchandra eventually became the…

[bazm-e-ishq]

assalamualikum

it's so good to see your posts on my feed 💕💕

just wondering if you have some poetry recommendations for someone who has just started reading Urdu poetry

Walakium assalam

Aww tysm. My heart feels so full when you guys appreciate my blog like this <33

I have some recommendations,

Mir taqi mir (hasti apni habab ki si hy)

Khawaja Haider Ali atish(rukh o zulf par jan khoya kia)

Mirza Asad ullah khan Ghalib(dil e nadan tujhy hoya kia hy)

Bahadur Shah Zafar(Lagta ni hy dil mera ujray dayar mein)

Ahmad faraz (suna hai log use aankh bhar ke dekhte hain)

Momin khan momin (wo jo hum mein tum mein qarar tha tumhein yaad ho ki

Mirza Ghalib(hazaron KHwahishen aisi ki har KHwahish pe dam nikle)

Nasir kazmi(dil dhaDakne ka sabab yaad aaya)

Allama iqbal(sitaron se aage jahan aur bhi hain)

These are a few from our rich Urdu literature which I'm in love with. Enrich your life with these ;) and come back anytime.

[faithful-diaries]

na kisī kī aañkh kā nuur huuñ na kisī ke dil kā qarār huuñ

kasī kaam meñ jo na aa sake maiñ vo ek musht-e-ġhubār huuñ

-Bahadur Shah Zafar

(musht-e-ġhubār: handful of dust)

[askpearlandmarina]

SQA67ZGYUIOHG8Y76GTYBHU6gtsxybhaqvg7gtyhiug6rsghbhivgucydse5edrfvgufd6aftgsuybhbugatyuhujkFTD6RS4DFGD4RFTGYYUF6TGYBHJBFTDGVYBHUGYHJHUF3EWIEFWHUF8UE8734283838291HUDEHHOghiuefwqhoSHUEU0y789u8978HDE8y98U89y97tg9G9FG9G7G9F9GFUOHDOUFHOFIJOFIHOHOCFGUHQEWU9CJIJNDGT7PGWFIUGIYFEWCUICHUDUHOn November 7th 1862, Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad, known by his regnal title of Bahadur Shah II or his poetic title of Bahadur shah Zafar died of Natural causes at 5 AM in Yangon, Burma while in Exile. He was buried at 4 pm later that day near the Shwedagon Pagoda. Nobody showed up for his funeral. rip

Um...right.

Yo, are you good, anon?

I don't think they are...

[famousplacesinindia]

THE ANECDOTE OF GHUMMI KABABI..🤍✨ The culinary art has been most important art in the Mughal times. Shah Jahan liked to enjoy long courses of food and spent hours on darstarkhwan. The emperor would set out the portion of food for poor before eating. However after 1857 when Delhi fell to its most miserable condition every section of society from Royal to ordinary’s were tremendously hurt. The lost grandeur also meant complete collapse of economy & loss of patronage. After the exile of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar , many of the chefs in the royal kitchen found themselves without patrons and set up roadside stalls in the walled city in order to survive. They sold delicious good on the roadside and on the steps of Jama Masjid. Of these cooks was Ghummi Kababi, described by Ashraf Subuhi Dehlvi in his book, Dikli ki chand Ajeeb Hastiyan. As long as Ghummi was alive no better Kabab were ever sold. Ghummi himself was a an entertaining man who single handedly tried to preserve Mughal legat. He had great skills to converse and narrate the memories of the beautiful past of Mughal grandeus of which he was a significant part. Ghummi would often mutter ‘ Aji woh din lad gaye jab khalil khan fakhta udaya kartey they’ The glory days have gone when all the lovers of spicy conversation and kababs would stand there the whole night. #mughalarchitecture #food #olddelhi #history #architecture #medieval #kabab #ghummikababs #history #culinary #culinaryarts #art #shahjahanabad #shahjahan #foodie #jamamasjid #mosque #stairs #instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CqJ0utbPZ_O/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ammaribnazizahmed]

❝...Over these many decades since the Partition, the conventional understanding has calcified that Hindustan is either a simple Hindi word for "India", an articulation of Hindu chauvinism, or, more rarely, something associated with the bygone era of the Mughal (Timurid) polity - itself understood by the Hindu Indian as a demonstration of the imperial violence of foreigners.

The erasure of the precolonial idea of Hindustan has meant that it is taken as a truism that there was no coherent concept of peninsular India before British domination. What is nominally understood by this is that the British were the first to control or claim the entire territory of the southern peninsula.

In this line of telling, the subcontinent before British colonisation was an age of "regional kingdoms" with no coherent notion of territoriality nor the political control over the entire peninsula.

The only noted exceptions are of Ashoka, from the third century BCE, whose realm included Kabul, or the Mughal king Aurangzeb, who extended Mughal rule in and beyond Deccan in the late seventeenth century (CE).

Such conventional wisdom, these historiographic truths, are mistaken. Certainly, the Mughals did not create the concept of Hindustan. There already existed an idea that Hindustan was a place of territorial integrity that encompassed the entire subcontinent...❞

Source: The Loss of Hindustan | The Invention of India by Manan Ahmed Asif, Pages 2-3

Pictured below is the map of Hindustan (or then British India) in 1859 CE - two years after the failed Hindustani revolt led by the last Timurid-Mughal Sultan Bahadur Shah Zafar II - by 19th century American cartologist Joseph Hutchins Colton.

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Ammār ibn Aziz Ahmed