The Last Badshah-e-Hind

          The Last Badshah E Hind 

The last Indian ruler to be ever honoured and accepted as the Emperor of India was the 19th Mughal Emperor Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad Bahadur Shah well renowned as Bahadur Shah Zafar during the Indian Rebellion, 1857. Of his neutral views on religion, many native rulers and regiments accepted and declared him the Emperor of India. 

 Nana Saheb Peshwa II, the illegitimate successor of Peshwa Baji Rao II also recognised Zafar as the Emperor of India despite his religion. 

On 11 May, the mutineers reached and captured Delhi, and declared Bahadur Shah Zafar the Emperor of India, and the Emperor held his first court in many years. However, the Britishers did return and laid siege to Delhi on 8 June 1857. On 21 September, Delhi was fallen back to the British's hand. The city received significant damage during the battle. Afterwards, the last titular Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was captured and exiled to Yangon, Myanmar serving his last days in captivity till his last breath on 7 November 1862.

After the nominal Mughal Emperor was deposed as the result of the First Indian Independence Rebellion in 1857. The government of England decided to transfer control of British India and its princely states from the English East India Company to the British Crown, thus groundbreaking the start of the British Raj and bestowing Queen Victoria the additional title of the Empress of India, marking the start of British Monarch that ended with the Indian republican constitution adaptation on 26 January 1950 making George VI the Last British King of India.