The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 - Brossura

Dalrymple, William

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ISBN 10: 1400078334 ISBN 13: 9781400078332

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008

Riassunto

A portrait of Mughal emperor, poet, and mystic Bahadur Shah Zafar II is set against the backdrop of mid-nineteenth-century India, the 1857 armed uprising against British rule, the final days of the Mughal capital of Delhi and its destruction in the wake of its fall, and Zafar's final days as an exile in Burma. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“A compulsively readable masterpiece. . . . Every chapter of The Last Mughal has historical echoes that are still desperately relevant today.” —The New York Review of Books “Deeply researched and beautifully written. . . . A poignant account of the events of 1857 in Delhi.” —The Nation“There is so much to admire in this book - the depth of historical research, the finely evocative writing, the extraordinary rapport with the cultural world of late Mughal India. It is also in many ways a remarkably humane and egalitarian history . . . This is a splendid work of empathetic scholarship.” —David Arnold, Times Literary Supplement

L'autore:

William Dalrymple is the author of seven previous works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; and From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain’s Wolfson History Prize. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. He divides his time between New Delhi and London.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1400078334
• ISBN 13: 9781400078332
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 592