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The Last Mughal.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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In 1857, after a number of high-caste Hindu sepoys rose up against their colonial masters, the British came close to being pushed out of India. This history, drawing on a substantial trove of documents in English, Persian, and Urdu, re-creates daily life in Delhi before and during the uprising, and charts the subsequent fall of the Muslim Mughal dynasty. The elderly emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II, had overseen a renaissance in Mughal arts and literature, but the British increasingly limited his ...

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