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 "id": "event/siege-of-delhi-1857",
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 "slug": "siege-of-delhi-1857",
 "label": {
  "ar": "حصار دلهي (١٨٥٧)",
  "en": "Siege of Delhi"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في ثورة 1857م سيطر الثوار على دلهي وأعلنوا بهادر شاه ظفر سلطاناً، فحاصر الإنجليز المدينة شهوراً ثم اقتحموها، وكان ذلك آخر عهد دلهي بالحكم المغولي {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim}.",
  "en": "In the 1857 rising the rebels held Delhi and proclaimed Bahadur Shah Zafar emperor; the British besieged the city for months, then stormed it — the end of Mughal rule in Delhi {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim}.",
  "ur": "1857ء کی بغاوت میں باغیوں نے دہلی پر قبضہ کیا اور بہادر شاہ ظفر کو بادشاہ قرار دیا؛ انگریزوں نے مہینوں محاصرے کے بعد شہر پر قبضہ کیا — دہلی میں مغل راج کا خاتمہ {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
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 "regions": [
  "south-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/colonial-era"
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 "tags": [],
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 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1857.0011020075704,
  "latest": 1858.0004380650894
 },
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   "edtf": "1857",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
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  "end": {
   "edtf": "1857",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true
  }
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    "edtf": "1857",
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  },
  "sources": [
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  "external_ids": {
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Wikidata candidate; siege attested in Indian histories — entry not yet checked on the page",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "model": "SWE-2 High",
   "run": "wikidata-import-wave2"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
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 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
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  {
   "to": "person/bahadur-shah-zafar",
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   "inverse": true,
   "role": "السلطان الاسمي",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim"
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  "person/mirza-ghalib",
  "person/zeenat-mahal",
  "person/bahadur-shah-zafar",
  "place/delhi",
  "event/aurangzeb-coronation-delhi-1659",
  "event/founding-of-shahjahanabad-1638",
  "event/humayun-returns-to-delhi-962",
  "event/ibn-battuta-envoy-to-china-1342"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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 }
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