The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
Author: William Dalrymple
On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls rests.”,,Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was a mystic, an accomplished poet a….Read More
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