Who was the last Mughal emperor, deposed and exiled to Rangoon by the British in 1858 for his nominal leadership of the 1857 uprising?

• A Aurangzeb
• B Shah Alam II
• C Akbar II
• D Bahadur Shah Zafar ✓

Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775-1862) was the last of the Mughal emperors and also an accomplished Urdu poet; his deposition marked the formal end of the 330-year Mughal dynasty.