The Last Mughal

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 27 մրտ, 2007 թ. - 560 էջ

In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously 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 was already in steep decline. Nonetheless, Zafar—a mystic, poet, and calligrapher of great accomplishment—created a court of unparalleled brilliance, and gave rise to perhaps the greatest literary renaissance in modern Indian history. All the while, the British were progressively taking over the Emperor's power. When, in May 1857, Zafar was declared the leader of an uprising against the British, he was powerless to resist though he strongly suspected that the action was 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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A Chessboard King
29
Believers and Infidels
57
An Uneasy Equilibrium
81
The Near Approach of the Storm
107
The Sword of the Lord of Fury
134
This Day of Ruin and Riot
180
A Precarious Position
213
Blood for Blood
238
The Turn of the Tide
282
IO To Shoot Every Soul
320
The City of the Dead
363
The Last of the Great Mughals
412
Glossary
449
Bibliography
503
Illustrations
533
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William Dalrymple is the author of seven previous works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; and From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain’s Wolfson History Prize. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. He divides his time between New Delhi and London.

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