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William Dalrymple's powerful retelling of this fateful course of events is shaped from groundbreaking material: previously untranslated Urdu and Persian manuscripts that include Indian eyewitness accounts, and the records of the Delhi courts, police, and administration during the siege.
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 is a 2006 historical book by William Dalrymple. [1] It deals with the life of poet-emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775–1862) and the unsuccessful Indian Rebellion of 1857, which he participated in, challenging the British East India Company's rule over India.
- William Dalrymple
- 2006
Biography. 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.
During his rule (1837-57), the Mughal empire had shrunk to the outskirts of Delhi; the British were the de facto power; the king was a titular head paid a sum of some eleven and a half lakhs...
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.
Jan 1, 2006 · 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.
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The Dethronement of the Last Mughal King. The great Mughal dynasty in India met an ignominious end, and William Dalrymple renders it dramatically in the book under review. In outline, the story is familiar. After the death of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707, the Mughal dynasty fell into disarray.
