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 Last Mughal, The: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 (Signed Copy) by Dalrymple, William |
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Brief Description Bahadur Shah Zafar II was a mystic. But while Zafar's Mughal ancestors had controlled most of India, the aged Zafar was king in name only and was deprived of real political power. This book presents a portrait of the Delhi Zafar personified, the story of the last days of the Mughal capital and its destruction in the catastrophe of 1857. |
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Author Profile William Dalrymple was born in Scotland. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. His last book, White Mughals, won the Wolfson Prize for History 2003 and the Scottish Book of the Year Prize. A stage version by Christopher Hampton has just been co-commissioned by the National Theatre and the Tamasha Theatre Company. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society. His Radio 4 series on the history of British spirituality and mysticism, The Long Search, won the 2002 Sandford St Martin Prize for Religious Broadcasting. He and his family divide their time between London and Delhi. |
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Related Links - Countrybookshop Bestselling Authors in Asian / Middle Eastern History: C 1500 To C 1900 Dalrymple, William Hibbert, Christopher Winchester, Simon Coates, Tim Macintyre, Ben Allen, Charles Eastman, Lloyd E. Purewal, Shinder Goffman, Daniel Yokoyama, Toshio |
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