List of the party that accompanied the King to Yangoon on his exile
In October 1858, the Supreme Govemment decided to
send the King and his immediate family to Rangoon.
The King and his family were moved under armed escort out of Delhi.
Apart from the troops the following made up the group being moved,
this is from the ‘Nominal roll of the state prisoners proceeding to
Calcutta’.
1.
Abu Zafar Bahadur Shah, Shah Gazee, ex-king of Delhi.
2.
Mirza Jawan Bakht , son of the above by ex-queen Zinat
Mahal.
3.
Mirza Shah Abbas, son of the above by Harem Woman.
4.
Zinat Mahal, ex-queen of Dehli.
5.
Nawab Shah Zamani Begum, wife of Mirza Jawan Bakht.
6. Ruqaiya Sultan begum, sister of Nawab Shah
7. Mumtaz Dulhan Begum, mother of Shah Zamani Begum and Ruqaiya
Sultan Begum.
8.
Nawab Taj Mahal Begum, a wife of ex-king
of Dehli.
9. Sultani
10. Raheema
Harem of the ex-king
11. Ishrat
12.Taharat
13. Mubarakunnisa,
mother of Mirza Shah Abbas, Harem
of ex-king.
Male attendants
14. Mirza Keisur
15. Abdur Ruhiman
16. Ahmed Beg
17. Inuzzur
18.
Khwaja Bakhsh, eunuch
Female
attendants
19. Sandal
20. Niazoo, forster-nurse
of Nawab Shah Zamani Begum
21. Husaini
22. Kimeean
23. Wafldar
24. Rahat
25. Jumayat
26. Mubarak
27. Sakina Khanam
28. Hurmat Bhai
29. Lutfan
N.B. One or
two of the servants have two or three little children.
When the group of
prisoners and their followers reached
Allahabad the following decided not to go on and wanted to go back to
Delhi. The following ,
therefore, did not go on to Yangoon.
1.
Mirza Keiser
2.
Jaffar
Male attendants
3. Khwaja
Bukhsh, eunuch
4. Taj Mahal,
wife of Bahadur Shah Zafar
5. Sakina
Khanum
6.
Mumtaz Dulhan, mother in law of Jawan
Bakht
7.
Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, sister in law of
Jawan Bakht
8.
Raheema
9.
Taharat
10.
Kimeean
11.
Wafedar
12.
Rahat
13.
Mubarak
