The Last Mughal: The Fall of Delhi, 1857A&C Black, 17 օգս, 2009 թ. - 608 էջ WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph 'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard 'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal. In May 1857 India's flourishing capital became the centre of the bloodiest rebellion the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat. The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic destruction, and the individuals caught up in one of the most terrible upheavals in history, as an army mutiny was transformed into the largest anti-colonial uprising to take place anywhere in the world in the entire course of the nineteenth century. |
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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 | |
To Shoot Every Soul | |
The City of the Dead | |
Glossary | |
Bibliography | |
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Footnotes | |
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