Q. Mirza Ghalib was a contemporary of which among the following Mughal Emporers?
Solution:
Bahadur Shah Zafar or Bahadur Shah II was the last Mughal emperor. He was exiled to Rangoon after 1857 revolt. Bahadur Shah Zafar was also a noted Urdu poet, having written a number of Urdu ghazals.
The court that he maintained was home to several prolific Urdu writers, including Mirza Ghalib, Dagh, Mumin, and Zauq.
Mirza Ghalib was a prominent Urdu and Persian poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire.
His honorific was Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula. During his lifetime, the already declining Mughal empire was eclipsed and displaced by the Colonial British Raj and finally deposed following the defeat of the Indian rebellion of 1857, are some of the events that he described through his work.
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