<![CDATA[The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857]]>

false <![CDATA[The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171869041m/124429.jpg 124429 10 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 history. Then, in 1857, Zafar gave his blessing to a rebellion among the Company’s own Indian troops, thereby transforming an army mutiny into the largest uprising any empire had to face in the entire course of the nineteenth century. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj’s Stalingrad: one of the most horrific events in the history of Empire, in which thousands on both sides died. And when the British took the city—securing their hold on the subcontinent for the next ninety years—tens of thousands more Indians were executed, including all but two of Zafar’s sixteen sons. By the end of the four-month siege, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and Zafar was sentenced to exile in Burma. There he died, the last Mughal ruler in a line that stretched back to the sixteenth century. Award-winning historian and travel writer William Dalrymple shapes his powerful retelling of this fateful course of events from groundbreaking material: previously unexamined Urdu and Persian manuscripts that include Indian eyewitness accounts and records of the Delhi courts, police and administration during the siege. The Last Mughal is a revelatory work—the first to present the Indian perspective on the fall of Delhi—and has as its heart both the dazzling capital personified by Zafar and the stories of the individuals tragically caught up in one of the bloodiest upheavals in history. 574127 book 2006 The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 total:251|5:62|4:118|3:58|2:11|1:2| 251 980 521 51 0 2 false false Tue Jan 01 15:45:30 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 03 05:42:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 07:41:06 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 11:14:49 -0700 2007
The book is about Delhi during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, and about the fall of the Mughals....more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 22:44:43 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 23:32:30 -0700 2007 Publishers: Penguin Viking
Published In: 2006
Price: Rs 695
Pages: 586
Genre: Historical
BY Sandhya Iyer

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I cannot help but recall these words, after reading William Dalrymple's brilliant
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The first half of the book is nothing short of intoxicating; Dalrymple's descriptions of old Mughal Delhi are amazing, and he does a good jo...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 07:47:14 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 07:52:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 12:17:23 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 12:45:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 20 17:58:56 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 07:41:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 20:38:01 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 20:41:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 22:33:12 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 22:41:54 -0700 2008 In Xanadu, which intrepidly follows the Silk Road) when he was only 22. Since then, he's turned into a resident of India and a historian who seems bound and determined to undo the bad effects of the Raj. This and it...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 19:46:17 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 31 08:56:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 11 19:21:57 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 10 20:36:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 15 15:37:41 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 15:38:40 -0800 2007 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 Mog...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 20:12:24 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 20:35:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 08:45:27 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 08:48:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 20:50:32 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 20:59:18 -0800 2008
It is historically ACCURATE. Colonization is disturbing, and...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 21 10:05:31 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 10:11:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 16:22:21 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 16:28:03 -0700 2009 A brilliant read, overa...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Nov 04 21:47:52 -0800 2007 Fri Oct 26 08:32:32 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 04 21:43:30 -0800 2007
The book's fundamental premise, though, is intriguing: that Zafar's court represented the last vestige of a tolerant, Indo-Isla...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 30 08:33:44 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 05:27:02 -0700 2007
Interesting also as a history of a city - how a city can survive a huge loss of population and vast change in cultur...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=124429