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The Last Mughal
副标题: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
ISBN: 9781400078332
出版社: Vintage
出版年: 2008-3-11
页数: 592
定价: USD 18.95
装帧: 平装
内容简介
In this evocative study of the fall of 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 taking over the emperor's power. When, in May 1857, Zafar was declared the leader of an uprising against the British, he was powerless to resist though he strongly suspected that the action was doomed. Four months later, the British took Delhi, the capital, with catastrophic results. With an unsurpassed understanding of British and Indian history, Dalrymple crafts a provocative, revelatory account of one of the bloodiest upheavals in history.
作者简介
William Dalrymple is the author of five acclaimed 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; the best-selling "From the Holy Mountain"; and White Mughals, which won Britain's most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian.
目录
Maps
Dramatis Personae
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1)A Chessboard King
2)Believers and Infidels
3)An Uneasy Equilibrium
4)The Near Approach of the Storm
5)The Sword of the Lord of Fury
6)This Day of Ruin and Riot
7)A Precarious Position
8)Blood for Blood
9)The Turn of the Tide
10)To Shoot Every Soul
11)The City of the Dead
12)The Last of the Great Mughals
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
