The Last Mughal
The Fall of Delhi, 1857
1st Edition
Published on 17. August 2009
608 pages
978-1-4088-0688-3 (ISBN)
Description
On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent and doomed uprising. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad, the end of both Mughal power and a remarkable culture.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Colour Inserts
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-0688-3 (9781408806883)
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09/2009
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Person
William Dalrymple was born in Scotland. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. His last book, White Mughals, won the Wolfson Prize for History 2003 and the Scottish Book of the Year Prize. A stage version by Christopher Hampton has just been co-commissioned by the National Theatre and the Tamasha Theatre Company. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society. His Radio 4 series on the history of British spirituality and mysticism, The Long Search, won the 2002 Sandford St Martin Prize for Religious Broadcasting. He and his family divide their time between London and Delhi.
Content
- Cover
- Reviews of The Last Mughal
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- By the Same Author
- A Note on the Author
- List of Illustrations
- Maps
- Dramatis Personae
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 A Chessboard King
- 2 Believers and Infidels
- 3 An Uneasy Equilibrium
- 4 The Near Approach of the Storm
- 5 The Sword of the Lord of Fury
- 6 This Day of Ruin and Riot
- 7 A Precarious Position
- 8 Blood for Blood
- 9 The Turn of the Tide
- 10 To Shoot Every Soul
- 11 The City of the Dead
- 12 The Last of the Great Mughals
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Plate Section
- Footnotes
- Also Available by William Dalrymple
- eCopyright
