Monday 25 - Friday 29 September 2006
The Last Mughal
By William Dalrymple, abridged by Libby Spurrier, read by Robert Bathurst
An account of the largest uprising the British Empire ever had to face.
The last of the Great Mughals was Bahadur Shah Zafar II: one of the most talented, tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty, he found himself in the position of leader of a violent uprising he knew from the start would lead to irreparable carnage.
Zafar’s frantic efforts to unite his disparate and mutually suspicious forces proved tragically futile: the Siege of Delhi was the Raj’s Stalingrad, and Mughal Delhi was left an empty ruin, haunted by battered remnants of a past that was being rapidly and brutally overwritten.
Monday, September 25, 2006
The Last Mughal
A thousand camels to Hadi Sahib for bringing the following Radio 4 'Book of the Week' serialisation to my attention.
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