Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Dalrymple, William |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 3/11/2008 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of theRaj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sourcesto investigate a pivotal moment in history.
The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, cameto the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep , Zafar—a mystic, poet, and calligrapher of great accomplishment—createda court of unparalleled brilliance, and gave rise to perhaps the greatest literaryrenaissance in modern Indian history. All the while, the British were progressivelytaking over the Emperor’s power. When, in May 1857, Zafar was declared the leaderof an uprising against the British, he was powerless to resist though he stronglysuspected that the action was doomed. Four months later, the British took Delhi,the capital, with catastrophic results. With an unsurpassed understanding of Britishand Indian history, Dalrymple crafts a provocative, revelatory account of one thebloodiest upheavals in history.
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