Translations from Urdu

For two yards of land

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775-1862), the last of the Mughal emperors, was a weak king but a remarkable poet. His reign was characterized by chaos, unrest and the domination of the British. His rule also witnessed the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 after which the Badshah was exiled to Rangoon where he spent the last years of [...]