On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent and doomed uprising. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad, the end of both Mughal power and a remarkable culture.
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On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent and doomed uprising. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad, the end of both Mughal power and a remarkable culture.
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Good in good dust jacket. Outline: -Publisher`s Synopsis At 4 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 should remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls Bahadur Shah Zafar II the last Mughal Emperor was a mystic a talented poet and a skilled calligrapher. But while Zafar`s 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 Zafar 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`s flourishing capital became the centre of an uprising that reduced his beloved Delhi to a battered empty ruin. When Zafar gave his blessing to a rebellion among the Company`s own Indian troops it transformed an army mutiny into the largest uprising the British Empire ever had to face. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj`s Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers neither of whom could retreat. The Last Mughalis 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 records of the Delhi courts police and administration during the siege. The Last Mughalis an extraordinary revisionist work with clear contemporary echoes. It is the first account to present the Indian perspective on the siege and has at its heart the stories of the forgotten individuals tragically caught up in one of the bloodiest upheavals in history. -> the publisher of this HARDBACK book is Bloomsbury Publishing The date of this copy is 2006 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1200grams, ISBN: 9780747586395.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Fine condition. Bloomsbury, 2006. First UK edition-first printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Brown hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the edges of the cover)with Dj(two small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in fine condition. Illustrated with colour, b/w photos, drawings, maps. The book is new with two small ink marks on the outer edges of the pages, two very small creases on the edges of the pages.598pp including List of illustrations, dramatic personae, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Price un-clipped. Heavy book(approx 1.2 Kg).
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