#firstwarofindianindependence #mirzamughal #hodso – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com A blog exploring India's Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb or its rich multi plural multi cultural heritage via its adab, tehzeeb & tareekh Sat, 13 May 2023 05:28:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://ranasafvi.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/image-7-75x75.jpg #firstwarofindianindependence #mirzamughal #hodso – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com 32 32 179612229 12th May 1857 in Delhi https://ranasafvi.com/12th-may-1857-in-delhi/ https://ranasafvi.com/12th-may-1857-in-delhi/#respond Sat, 13 May 2023 05:28:32 +0000 https://ranasafvi.com/?p=38602 12th May / 17 Ramzan 1857

On 12th May 1857 the Indian sepoys who had come from Meerut took out a silver throne kept in one corner of the Diwan e khas and crowned Bahadur Shah Zafar the Badshah of Hindustan

All those who rebelled against East India company did so under his banner.

Mirza Mughal C I C
#MirzaMughal eldest surviving son of Bahadur Shah Zafar
Who took over as commander of rebel forces on 12th May 1857
was shot in coldblood by Major Hodson on 22Sept 1857 after failure of uprising
( Picture 1- Mirza Zuheerooddeen, alias Mirza Mooghul Bahadur, 2nd Son.
by Ghulam ‘Ali Khan)

one popular account is that
After the murder of Mirza Mughal Mirza Khizr Khan, and his grandson, Mirza Abu Bakr
Hodson got their heads cut off and presented them to the Badshah saying that “This is your (Nazr – gift), which had closed and to renew it you had taken part in the rebellion.” The Badshah looked on at his sons heads and with surprising composure said ”Thanks to Allah, the descendents of Timur always come in front of their fathers in this brave way”.
After that the bodies were hung out in front of the Police Station and the heads were hung on the Khuni Darwaza (Bloody Gate).
source: Khwaja Hasan Nizami

Picture 3- The Dargah of Sheikh Baqi Billah in Paharganj, Delhi also houses a lovely cemetery. Very well cared for and peaceful.
The Mughal princes shot in1857 by Hodson are also buried here

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]]> https://ranasafvi.com/12th-may-1857-in-delhi/feed/ 0 38602 Saber with Scabbard,grip, 18th or 19th century; guard and scabbard, 19th century; blade, dated A.H. 1099/A.D. 1688; decoration on blade, 19th century~ Met Museum https://ranasafvi.com/saber-with-scabbardgrip-18th-or-19th-century-guard-and-scabbard-19th-century-blade-dated-a-h-1099-a-d-1688-decoration-on-blade-19th-century-met-museum/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 05:31:22 +0000 https://ranasafvi.com/saber-with-scabbardgrip-18th-or-19th-century-guard-and-scabbard-19th-century-blade-dated-a-h-1099-a-d-1688-decoration-on-blade-19th-century-met-museum/

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The most important ceremony in the inauguration of many Islamic rulers was the investiture with a sword, rather than a crown. This extravagantly decorated saber traditionally is said to have been refitted in 1876 for the investiture of the Ottoman sultan Murad V (reigned May 30–August 31, 1876). He suffered a nervous breakdown before the ceremony and subsequently was deposed and kept a prisoner until his death in 1904.

The sword was probably assembled by a court jeweler, using a seventeenth-century Iranian blade, an eighteenth-century Indian jade grip, and gem-studded gold and gilt-brass mounts of contemporary workmanship. The emerald near the top of the scabbard opens to reveal a secret compartment containing a gold coin marked with the name of Süleyman the Magnificent (1494–1566), the most powerful Ottoman ruler of the sixteenth century. The underside of the emerald is inscribed with the phrase “According to God’s will.”

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22871

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