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To: JPR who wrote (12418)	8/23/2002 7:45:06 AM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

The Maharajas and the Moghuls - good riddance Former Mughals now a forgotten footnote By Sugita Katyal Dawn.com NEW DELHI: Their ancestors had one of the best addresses in India - the Red Fort, Delhi. But the descendants of the country's grand Mughal rulers are today a forgotten family , living miles from the capital's imposing sandstone fort in a little, rented house near the southern city of Hyderabad. And, like millions of other Indians, they too have to stand in line and buy a ticket to enter the Delhi fort, where the last Mughal emperor was enthroned in 1837. "No one knows who we are and where we come from," rued 80-year-old Begum Laila Umahani, who says she is a fourth-generation descendant of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal ruler. "A few who recognize us, treat us with a little respect and at other times, become oblivious and doubt our lineage," she said in a documentary film on the lives of the Mughal descendants.