The great-granddaughter-in-law of India's last emperor, a Brahmin who had been a widow for 30 years, made a living by picking up garbage
In the history of the world, four ancient civilizations were born, of which ancient India was an ancient country with the same name as China. However, there is a difference that chinese civilization has been passed down for a long time, but the ancient Indian civilization has been faulted many times for various historical reasons, and today's India has obvious differences from ancient India.
And the one we want to talk about today, she is the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last emperor of India, once the Indian Brahmin Surdan Begum, but widowed for 30 years, and now with the last dynasty of India's crown prince and grandson, relying on garbage to survive. In India's recent history, the last dynasty was the Mughals, whose last emperor was named Abak Shah II, who, like most last emperors, looked dismal. Born in May 1775, Abak has portrayed him as a hero in Bollywood films, but his true history can be described as a lifetime.
Under the guidance of the East India Company, the British launched a war of conquest against India in 1757, and in the face of british steel cannons, the Indian army collapsed and gradually became a British colony. As the ruler of the Mughal Dynasty, Abak was only concerned about his own enjoyment, and he was always helpless in the face of the disintegration of the empire. At first, the imperial economy was controlled by the East India Company, and as the intervention deepened, it eventually penetrated into the military and political key points of the Mughal Dynasty, and although Abak felt some humiliation, as long as it did not affect his enjoyment of glory, he could ignore it.
However, this situation also began to change with the appointment of a new Governor-General of India, who ordered that if Abak had no heirs, he would have to surrender the throne after his death. Although Abak had a son, this order was not intended to be a great humiliation. Subsequently, the British ordered that Abak's heirs could not inherit the throne in the future, and must move out of the palace, and the monthly living expenses were reduced from 100,000 pounds to 15,000. Faced with the humiliation that ensued, the reluctant Abak revolted and succeeded in regaining the throne.
But what happened next proved that the victory was only a flash in the pan, and finally under the blows of the British colonists, Abak was eventually exiled to Burma, and his crown prince and grandson were either killed or fled to the people.
As Abak's great-granddaughter-in-law, Sultan Beguim can be said to be the last princess, whether by blood or status. When the husband was alive, the life of the whole family could still be guaranteed, but with the sudden death of the husband, in the end, the burden of the whole family fell on Sultan.
But as a Brahmin, Sultan did not have the ability to survive, and the whole family was in trouble. So far, Sultan has been widowed for 30 years, and his family has settled in the slum, although he can receive 600 yuan of relief money from the government every month, but the living conditions of this royal descendant are still not as good as that of an ordinary commoner.
Sultan is now in his 70s and has to take care of his children every day to pick up trash every day in order to make ends meet. As the saying goes, 'Thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi''," once a Brahmin, once a royal descendant, now ended up in such a field, it is really a sigh, after all, the once glorious Mughal Dynasty has disappeared with history.
The great-granddaughter-in-law of india's last emperor, a Brahmin, made a living by picking up garbage.