THE LAST MUGHAL (Record no. 11079)
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9780143102434 |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
9 (RLIN) | 1878 |
Personal name | WILLIAM DALRYMPLE |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | THE LAST MUGHAL |
Remainder of title | THE FALL OF A DYNASTY. DELHI 1857 |
Medium | ENGLISH |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | PAPERBACK |
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Item type | Books |
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Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | eps-library | eps-library | General Stacks | 10/06/2017 | 8177 | 940 8177 | 8177 | 10/06/2017 | 10/06/2017 | Books | It is 7th November 1862, Rangoon. A shrouded corpse is escorted by a motley crew of British soldiers. A nondescript grave is ready inside the prison premises. The British officer in charge insists that no one is able locate the last resting place of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mogul emperor. Zafar, in his lifetime, was a skilled calligrapher and a talented poet. While Zafar's more illustrious ancestors controlled most of the Indian subcontinent, he was an emperor only in name. Denied any political powers by East India Company, Zafar succeeded in forging a court of brilliance and presided over what was perhaps one of the greatest cultural renaissance in the world. Exploring the fall of the Mughal Empire, author William Dalrymple in The Last Mughal, uses new sources to pen to expound that stage of Indian history. |