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Emperor Bahadur Shah 2: His Role in the War in 1857. The last Mughal Emperor of Delhi (this spelling is strictly according to the chronicles and is in fact truly Indian. Delhi is the English spelling) commonly known as Bahadur Shah Zafar was the second son of Akbar Shah and and his Rajput wife Lal Bai. He was a great scholar of Persian, a marvellous calligrapher and a gifted poet of Urdu with Zafar as his pen-name. He composed many ghazals in Urdu as well as diwans some of which are available in printed form.