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The Last Mughal - The Fall of Delhi, 1857 (Paperback)
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The Last Mughal - The Fall of Delhi, 1857 (Paperback)
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In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the
beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple
uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal
moment in history.
The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the
political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline.
Nonetheless, Zafar--a mystic, poet, and calligrapher of great
accomplishment--created a court of unparalleled brilliance, and
gave rise to perhaps the greatest literary renaissance in modern
Indian history. All the while, the British were progressively
taking over the Emperor's power. When, in May 1857, Zafar was
declared the leader of an uprising against the British, he was
powerless to resist though he strongly suspected that the action
was doomed. Four months later, the British took Delhi, the capital,
with catastrophic results. With an unsurpassed understanding of
British and Indian history, Dalrymple crafts a provocative,
revelatory account of one the bloodiest upheavals in history.
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