write a note on Bahdur Shah II
The leadership at Delhi was nominally in the hands of Bahdur Shah, but the real control was exercised by General Bakhat Khan. On the side of the British the combined effort of Nicholson, Wilson . Baird smith and Neville Chamberlain enabled the recapture Delhi by September 1857. In Delhi, Emperor Bahdur Shah II was arrested and deported to Rangoon, where he remained in exile till he died in 1862.