The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857

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Publisher Description

At 4 PM on a dark, wet, winter's evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin was buried in eerie silence - no lamentations, no panegyrics, for as the British commissioner in charge of the funeral insisted, "No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls rests". This Mughal was Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most talented, tolerant, and likeable of his remarkable dynasty, who found himself leader of a violent uprising he knew from the start would lead to irreparable carnage.
Zafar's frantic efforts to unite his forces proved tragically futile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad, and Mughal Delhi was left an empty ruin. The Last Mughal charts the desecration and demise of a man, his dynasty, his city, and civilizations mercilessly ravished by fractured forces and vengeful British troops.

GENRE
History
NARRATOR
RB
Robert Bathurst
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
04:27
hr min
RELEASED
2007
30 October
PUBLISHER
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
PRESENTED BY
Audible.co.uk
SIZE
211.5
MB

Customer Reviews

Bunterella ,

The last Mughal

I have been a fan of William Dalrymple since I read his book, A Year in Delhi. He has become an empathetic observer of the Indian Subcontinent and writes cleanly and incisively about India's histories, rulers and peoples. The Last Mughal is excellent in all respects.

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