The Last Mughal The Fall Of Delhi, 1857

Delhi in 1857, its last emperor and the collapse that followed are reconstructed from archives few historians had opened. William Dalrymple built The Last Mughal on Persian and Urdu records from the period, including the Mutiny Papers, which lets ordinary residents appear alongside commanders and courtiers. Bahadur Shah Zafar, a poet as much as a sovereign, sits at the centre of a narrative that follows the uprising, the siege and the aftermath within the city itself. The result reads as social history as much as military or political history. Quick orientation: • Focused on Delhi and the events of 1857 • Research drawn from contemporary Persian and Urdu sources • The court of Bahadur Shah Zafar examined in detail • Social and cultural history set beside political narrative For history students, researchers and readers of South Asian history, available at Boipoka.