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Bahadur Shah Jafar is certainly luckier than Aurangjeb as far as tomb is concerned., Bahadur Shah jafar and Ghalib, they all survived on British pension, Jafar was unwilling in taking leadership but he couldn't resist the temptation and met the sad end.

@ Amita...thank you for video.

any idea why Mughal descendants are recognized by Government ?

we have one branch in Delhi too--they have a huge mansion on the ridge road-and one descendant also landed in Karwar on the Western coast and buried there

Zafar is revered as a Sufi saint in Rangoon. Ameeta: Thanks for sharing the clip.

@yogesh what do u mean by luckier than Aurangzeb as far as tomb is concerned? if u are mentioning the simple grave of Aurangzeb then probably u are mistaken because Aurangzeb was not a Sufi like Zafar but a Wahabi and it was his own will that his grave be made simple. and to your second Question rather unfortunate that none of the Mughal descendants are r given any help by the Government of India but I believe There is one begam in Howrah Station in Calcutta who sells tea on the Pavement to be the well known Descendants

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History is stranger than fiction----Bahadur Shah Zafar died unsung and unknown in Rangoon-------Major (Later Lt/Col) Hodson the acknowledged murderer of his sons was cited a hero of the Mutiny and today has the honour of having a Regiment in the Indian Army named after him --THE HODSON'S HORSE

@Kanu : This is really un-fortunate.Finally by the orders of the supreme court the ugly barracks of the army , put up by the British inside the Red Fort after the mutiny, stand removed. This 'Hodson's horse' is a disgrace on us all and to the memory of those who gave their lives in an effort to overthrow the yoke of foreign domination.The name ought to be changed. If the vestiges of symbols of British colonialism in delhi were done away with (Kingsway and Queensway became Rajpath and Janpath respectively and the War Memorial Arch became India Gate) surely this name ought to be changed as well.

I feel the name changing bit has already gone a bit far. The British influence on India (though evokes mixed emotions) has been quite beneficial to India. The names given by the British have a more familiar and pleasant recall in our minds than some of the new Indian name which sounds even more foreign to us. True patriotism requires lot more introspection, change and hard-work.... than this ridiculous name-changing habit which is nothing more than a mere tokenism. That said...retaining Hodsons's Horse is a disgrace.

@ Kanu ,yes its sad but Hodson had met his death in Lucknow and his grave still lies in Lucknow. Unfortunate that many Heros of the Uprising people like Bakht Khan was a real Hero have gone unsung

I agree absolutely. Changing the names of 'Raj' symbols is unfortunate. We cannot obliterate our colonial past.A better way would be to build ever grander structures than the ones erected during the British colonialism and preserving the ones left behind as they are national heritage.

This subject reminds me of the comedian Russel Peters show - Red, White & Brown...wherein he jokes about the ridiculous nature of these name changes. He says that if the Indians were really serious of changing the offensive the British names.....they should have done that right after they left India in 1947 !! Why did it have take 50 years to do it and for the offence to sink in !! Clearly shows that this is nothing but politics at play here pandering to a superficial and false sense if patriotism.

The names of all the three presidency towns (now metros) stand changed: Bombay, Calcutta and Madras....when is Delhi becoming Indraprastha I wonder (sic)?

I don't agree with this name changing Business but there are certain raj practices which must be done away like for eg Hodsons Horse and there is another famous british victory which i dont remember the name where british along with Sikhhad defeated Pasthun rebels and Indian army still celebrate that victory . baring these practices I dont think changing names serves any thing

why so much angst against changing names? thats the only thing we can do without a bribe and corruption.And some lesser known names come into limelight

It seems to me that all of this vulgar name changing is entirely politically motivated... The British certainly knew how to build cities, and India’s major cities are all largely their creations. The first one they built was Bombay, which they began to settle more than 350 years ago. To my mind it is the most attractive city in India. The British built Calcutta from its foundations upwards, and the urban parts of Madras, before starting to build New Delhi a century ago. They built that lovely city over 40 square kilometres in a mere 20 years between 1911 and 1931. The British talent was in building cities, the Indian "talent" is in renaming them. I dare say that there may have been a few ramshackle fishermen scratching out an existence of sorts on the 'muddy banks' of the Hooghly at the medieval village of Kalikata prior to 1690 but this has little relevence to what was to come after, surely? Was the vast infrastructural and architectural genius that created the city of Calcutta (poulation 230,000 by 1830) the brainchild of the aforementioned fishermen ? The march of 'historical revisonism' continues apace in India - and it does not limit itself to altering a few place names - I have read several articles, such as the one provided below, that attempt to airbrush well established historical fact. Poor old Job Charnock ! http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Bye-bye-birthday-boy/articleshow/47417873.cms

Julian is absolutely right in using the term "vulgar" to denote this name-changing business. It is a common trick used by ultra-nationalists to display their 'power' that accomplishes nothing. I might add that, many years ago, I met a direct descendant of Job Charnock - who is a biologist and was moving from Oxford to an Australian University.