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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. This was a major act of resistance ...
- William Dalrymple
- 2006
Battles/wars. Indian Rebellion of 1857. Bahadur Shah II (born Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad (24 October 1775 – 7 November 1862), usually referred to by his poetic title Bahadur Shah Zafar ( Persian pronunciation: [ba.hɑː.ˈduɾ ʃɑːh za.ˈfaɾ]; Zafar lit. 'Victory' ), was the twentieth and last Mughal emperor and a Hindustani poet.
Nov 8, 2017 · He died in custody on 7 November aged 87 - but his poetry lived on. The pen name he used, Zafar, means victory. The great Mughal empire had lost much of its influence and territory by the end of ...
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. Most of the Muslim population continued to show ...
Nov 1, 2007 · The last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II, also known as Zafar, died in a British prison in Burma in 1862. As the last of the dynastic line that extended back to the sixteenth century, he had in his earlier years presided over a culturally sophisticated court, but as the British East India Company extended its control over more of India, his rule was clearly coming to an end.
The Last Mughal. Summary. From multi-award-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple, a four-book collection chronicling the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of the East India Company. The remarkable story the rise of the East India Company and one of the most supreme acts of corporate violence in world history.
- William Dalrymple
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The Last Mughal is a portrait of the dazzling Delhi Zafar personified, the story of the last days of the great Mughal capital and its final destruction in the catastrophe of 1857. 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 ...
