The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty:
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- Title: The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
- Author: William Dalrymple
- Publisher: Vintage
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- Pages: 611
- Size: 5 MB
- Language: English
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- Year: 2008
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 By William
Dalrymple | Free PDF Download | Ebook download
On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862,
a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an
anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge
insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great
Moghuls rests.”
Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor,
was a mystic, an accomplished poet and a skilled calligrapher. But while his
Mughal ancestors had controlled most of India, the aged Zafar was king in name
only. Deprived of real political power by the East India Company, he
nevertheless succeeded in creating a court of great brilliance, and presided
over one of the great cultural renaissances of Indian history.
Then, in 1857, Zafar gave his blessing to a
rebellion among the Company’s own Indian troops, thereby transforming an army
mutiny into the largest uprising any empire had to face in the entire course of
the nineteenth century. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj’s Stalingrad: one of
the most horrific events in the history of Empire, in which thousands on
both sides died. And when the British took the city—securing their hold on the
subcontinent for the next ninety years—tens of thousands more Indians were
executed, including all but two of Zafar’s sixteen sons. By the end
of the four-month siege, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and Zafar
was sentenced to exile in Burma. There he died, the last Mughal ruler in a line
that stretched back to the sixteenth century.
Award-winning historian and travel writer
William Dalrymple shapes his powerful retelling of this fateful course of
events from groundbreaking material: previously unexamined Urdu and Persian manuscripts
that include Indian eyewitness accounts and records of the Delhi courts, police
and administration during the siege. The Last Mughal is a
revelatory work—the first to present the Indian perspective on the fall of
Delhi—and has as its heart both the dazzling capital personified by Zafar and
the stories of the individuals tragically caught up in one of the bloodiest
upheavals in history.
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