The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857

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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 in the past 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 used to be already in steep decline. Nonetheless, Zafar—a mystic, poet, and calligrapher of great accomplishment—created a court of unparalleled brilliance, and gave rise to possibly the greatest literary renaissance in up to date Indian history. The entire at the same time as, the British were step by step taking over the Emperor’s power. When, in Might 1857, Zafar used to be declared the leader of an uprising against the British, he used to be powerless to withstand despite the fact that he strongly suspected that the action used to be 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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