| Publication |
Gurugram, Penguin Random House, 2007.
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| Description |
xxvii, 578pBrown spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
The Last Mughal is 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 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 Mughal is 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.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations ix
Maps xii
Dramatis Personae xv
Acknowledgements xxv
Introduction 1 (26)
A Chessboard King 27 (31)
Believers and Infidels 58 (27)
An Uneasy Equilibrium 85 (29)
The Near Approach of the Storm114 (29)
The Sword of the Lord of Fury 143 (50)
This Day of Ruin and Riot 193 (37)
A Precarious Position 230 (27)
Blood for Blood 257 (48)
The Turn of the Tide 305 (41)
To Shoot Every Soul 346 (47)
The City of the Dead 393 (53)
The Last of the Great Mughals 446 (41)
Glossary 487 (10)
Notes 497 (52)
Bibliography 549 (12)
Index 561
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| Standard Number |
9780143102434 Pb.
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