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Item Details
Title:
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THE LAST MUGHAL
THE FALL OF A DYNASTY, DELHI, 1857 |
By: |
William Dalrymple, Robert Bathurst |
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CD-Audio |
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£16.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
074759130X |
ISBN 13: |
9780747591306 |
Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
Pub. date: |
16 April, 2007 |
Description: |
ABRIDGED Astunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal by the bestselling author of White Mughals and read by Robert Bathurst |
Synopsis: |
At 4pm 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. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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