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”Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire” Daily Telegraph
”Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding” Evening Standard
”A compulsively readable masterpiece” Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books
A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal.
In May 1857 India”s flourishing capital became the centre of the bloodiest rebellion the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj”s Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat.
The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic destruction, and the individuals caught up in one of the most terrible upheavals in history, as an army mutiny was transformed into the largest anti-colonial uprising to take place anywhere in the world in the entire course of the nineteenth century.
”Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire” Daily Telegraph
”Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding” Evening Standard
”A compulsively readable masterpiece” Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books
A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal.
In May 1857 India”s flourishing capital became the centre of the bloodiest rebellion the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj”s Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat.
The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic destruction, and the individuals caught up in one of the most terrible upheavals in history, as an army mutiny was transformed into the largest anti-colonial uprising to take place anywhere in the world in the entire course of the nineteenth century.
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Format EPUB ● Pagini 608 ● ISBN 9781408806883 ● Editura Bloomsbury Publishing ● Publicat 2009 ● Descărcabil 6 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 2369356 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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