With an unsurpassed understanding of British and Indian history, Dalrymple crafts a provocative, revelatory account of one the bloodiest upheavals in history. Four months later, the British took Delhi, the capital, with catastrophic results. 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. : The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 (9780747587262) by Dalrymple, William and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. All the while, the British were progressively taking over the Emperor's power. 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. William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline. Being young and inexperienced led him to be regarded as a less effective ruler than Sher Shah Suri, who defeated him and. 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.
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