[PHOTOESSAY] Bahadur Shah Zafar: The Last Great Traitor of the Indian War of Independence

The story of how Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal, intrigued with the British to sabotage the First War of Indian Independence in 1857.

Ghaziyoñ meñ bū rahegī jab tak imān kī
Takht London tak chalegī tegh Hindostān kī.

As long as there remains the scent of Iman in the hearts of our Ghazis, so long shall the sword of Hindustan flash before the throne of London.

IT MUST TAKE COSMIC LEVELS OF DELUSION to compose a couplet like this after being comprehensively crushed. But then we’re talking a…