The Last Mughal
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The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline. Nonetheless, ZafarтАФa mystic, poet, and calligrapher of great accomplishmentтАФcreated a court of unparalleled brilliance, and gave rise to perhaps the greatest literary renaissance in modern Indian history. All the while, the British were progressively taking over the Emperor's power. When, in May 1857, Zafar was declared the leader of an uprising against the British, he was powerless to resist though he strongly suspected that the action was doomed. Four months later, the British took Delhi, the capital, with catastrophic results. With an unsurpassed understanding of British and Indian history, Dalrymple crafts a provocative, revelatory account of one the bloodiest upheavals in history.
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William Dalrymple is the author of seven previous works of history and travel, including┬аCity of Djinns,┬аwhich won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; and┬аFrom the Holy Mountain;┬аWhite Mughals,┬аwhich won BritainтАЩs Wolfson History Prize.┬аHe is a contributor to┬аThe New York Review of Books┬аand┬аThe New Yorker.┬аHe divides his time between New Delhi and London.
