Charity for emperor’s family.(Leisure)

From: Post (South Africa) | Date: April 4, 2007 | Copyright information

Patna: A Hindu temple trust in Bihar has offered a job and free education to the impoverished family members of India’s last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar’s great granddaughter-in-law Sultana Begum.

This humane gesture of communal harmony comes in a year that India celebrates the 150th year of the first war of independence in 1857 – a war fought under the leadership of Zafar.

The Patna-based Mahavir Mandir Trust has offered a job to a mem...

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