The revolt against the British broke out at Meerut on 10th May 1857 that soon turned into a Great Uprising and shook the foundations of the colonial power in India. A conjunction of Mars and Saturn took place in July 1857. A solar eclipse occurred on 18th September 1857, two days before the capture of Delhi by the British. There followed a lunar eclipse, on 28th February 1858. Then a comet brightened up in the evening skies only days before the British Crown was about to take India in its fold on 1st November 1858. How Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775-1862), central to the upheaval, and the laureate Mirzā Ghālib (1797-1859), a remote observer, reacted in such a scenario is central to our theme. Z. afar was a superstitious man and had a spiritual incline. What is unique is that he had never mixed up the outcome of the war with the celestial events and left it to Almighty. That he was unaware of these events is difficult to believe. Ghālib was a skeptic and came to believe the celestial events as signals of divine wrath. In the process we discover an unexplored side of Mirzā Ghālib and his grasp of astronomy.

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历史记录：1857-1858年间巴哈杜尔·沙·扎法尔皇帝和获奖者米尔扎·加利卜对天体事件的反应

1857年5月10日，对英军的起义在密拉特（Meerut）爆发，不久就演变成一场大起义，动摇了印度殖民力量的基础。1857年7月，火星与土星相交。1857年9月18日发生日食，这是英国人占领德里的两天前。随后发生了1858年2月28日的月食。然后，在1858年11月1日英国王室将印度带入印度圈的前几天，傍晚的天空就照亮了一颗彗星。莫卧儿皇帝巴哈杜尔·沙·扎法尔（1775-1862）是剧变的中心，而得奖者MirzāGhālib（1797-1859）是一个遥远的观察者，在这种情况下做出的反应是我们主题的中心。Z. afar是个迷信的人，有着精神上的倾向。独特的是，他从未将战争的结果与天体事件混在一起，而是交给了全能的。很难相信他没有意识到这些事件。加利卜（Ghālib）持怀疑态度，并开始相信天体事件是神圣愤怒的信号。在此过程中，我们发现了米尔扎·加利卜（MirzāGhālib）尚未探索的一面，以及他对天文学的掌握。