Bahadur Shah II

Bahadur Shah II (born October 24, 1775, Delhi, India—died November 7, 1862, Rangoon, Burma [now Yangon, Myanmar]) was the last Mughal emperor of India (reigned 1837–57). By the time of his ascension, India was politically and commercially controlled by the British East India Company, essentially reducing Bahadur Shah to a titular ruler. He was a poet, musician, and calligrapher, more an aesthete than a political leader.