SSC MTS 2022 PYQ — Question 32

The correct answer is option 3 i.e. 1862

Bahadur Shah II, also called Bahadur Shah Zafar (born October 24, 1775, in Delhi, India—died November 7, 1862, in Rangoon [now Yangon], Myanmar), was the last Mughal emperor of India (reigning 1837–57).

Facts on Bahadur Shah Zafar:

1. He ascended the Mughal throne in 1837 at the age of 62.
2. He was a poet and an artist.
3. The company had given the Mughal Emperor a pension and the authority to collect taxes in Delhi.
4. Zafar was a Sufi and was even regarded as a Sufi Pir.

5. Zafar had been on the throne for twenty years when the First War of Independence took place in 1857.

6. At the time of the 1857 rebellion, Bahadur Shah Jafar II was the Emperor of India.
7. He was arrested by the British Army after it captured Delhi in September 1857.
8. After the rebellion was put down by the British, he was exiled to Burma (Myanmar) with his family until his death.