Encyclopaedia Britannica, «Bahadur Shah II» (Britannica Editors)

Encyclopaedia Britannica, «Bahadur Shah II» (Britannica Editors)

An entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the last Mughal emperor. It states that he ruled 1837–1857, that the British retook Delhi in September 1857, that he was arrested at the end of that month and exiled to Rangoon, and that he died there on 7 November 1862.