Zafar Mahal
Last Mughal palace with a marble enclosure and a vacant grave awaiting its exiled emperor.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Zafar Mahal in Delhi's Mehrauli follows Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, who expanded his father's summer palace in the eighteen forties and composed poetry in its courtyards alongside Mirza Ghalib. You'll hear how a poet-emperor ruled in ceremony only under British power, and what happened after the uprising of eighteen fifty-seven brought his reign to its end. The marble enclosure beside the mosque still holds his father and grandfather's graves.
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