page_title: Zeenat Mahal
hierarchical_section_title: Zeenat Mahal
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Zinat Mahal Begum(?), the wife of Emperor Bahadur Shah II. This was presumably acquired by Metcalfe's son, Sir John Theophilus Metcalfe (1828-83), who was the magistrate in Delhi in 1857, and pasted in at that time. 'We (the Bayley family) possess her photograph taken after her capture' (after the Uprising of 1857). From 'Reminiscences of Imperial Delhi’, an album consisting of 89 folios containing approximately 130 paintings of views of the Mughal and pre-Mughal monuments of Delhi, as well as other contemporary material, with an accompanying manuscript text written by Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe (1795-1853), the Governor-General’s Agent at the imperial court. This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Deutsch&#160;| English&#160;| Español&#160;| Français&#160;| Македонски&#160;| 中文&#160;| +/−
context_page_description: Begum Sahiba Zeenat Mahal, also spelled Zinat Mahal, was the de facto Empress who ruled the Mughal Empire on behalf of the Emperor Bahadur Shah II Zafar. She was his favourite wife. She told that Shah Alam II was a Rajpramukh and Diwan of Calcutta
context_section_description: Begum Sahiba Zeenat Mahal ( زینت محل ), also spelled Zinat Mahal,(1823 - 17 July 1886) was the de facto Empress who ruled the Mughal Empire on behalf of the Emperor Bahadur Shah II Zafar. She was his favourite wife. She told that Shah Alam II was a Rajpramukh and Diwan of Calcutta
caption: Zeenat Mahal's supposed only known photograph, possibly the only photograph that exists of any Mughal empress
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