Last Mughal The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi 1857

Name: Last Mughal The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi 1857
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ISBN: 9781400043101

ISBN-10: 1400043107

ISBN-13: 9781400043101

Edition: 2007

Authors: William Dalrymple

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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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/27/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.376
Language: English



Maps


Dramatis Personae


Acknowledgements


Introduction


A Chessboard King


Believers and Infidels


An Uneasy Equilibrium


The Near Approach of the Storm


The Sword of the Lord of Fury


This Day of Ruin and Riot


A Precarious Position


Blood for Blood


The Turn of the Tide


To Shoot Every Soul


The City of the Dead


The Last of the Great Mughals


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Illustrations