Sell The Last Mughal : The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple (US edition, paperback) best price

In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline. Nonetheless, Zafar--a mystic, poet, and calligrapher of great accomplishment--created a court of unparalleled brilliance, and gave rise to perhaps the greatest literary renaissance in modern Indian history. All the while, the British were progressively ta... ---------------------------------------- Ships from and sold by EXPERAL SINGAPORE Publisher: Random House USA Inc ISBN 13: 9781400078332 Condition: Brandnew Binding: paperback Pages: 534 Dimensons: 202 x 132 x 32 | 539.77 (gram)