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The Last Mughal - The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple |
In this last of his amazing books on Mughal/British India, Dalrymple has researched anew and in depth the events leading to the 1857 Mutiny. He sympathetically describes the heights of power and culture to which the three-hundred-year Mughal dynasty rose, as well as the depths to which it finally fell through its own decadence and that of the East India Company. The Mutiny finally marked not only their mutual end but that of an era.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 39 April 2007 ) |
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