The last mughal book

Zafar managed to shilly-shally his way into a revolution doomed to fail. An indecisive man who had come to the throne in his 60s, he was more poet than politician, dogged by his royal but decadent and penniless relations, cuckolded by his concubines and henpecked by an ambitious wife scheming to enthrone her son. The last emperor to live here was Bahadur Shah Zafar II, whose capture during the 1857 mutiny marked the end of a line of rulers who had lorded over northern India for three centuries. To visit Delhi today and stroll through the Red Fort is to take in but a fragment of what was once a remarkable architectural assemblage-a walled city of palaces, gardens, watercourses, mosques and pavilions. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857īy William Dalrymple, Alfred A. Military History Book Review: The Last Mughal Close