Author: William Dalrymple | maps and illustrations by Olivia Fraser. A Lady At Last (de Warenne Dynasty). The Mughal World: Life in India's Last Golden Age. Nero. The End of a Dynasty. William Dalrymple was born in Scotland. His last book, White Mughals, won the Wolfson Prize for History 2003 and the Scottish Book of the Year Prize. A stage version by Christopher Hampton has just been co-commissioned by the National Theatre and the Tamasha Theatre Company. Dalrymple has spent 140 pages convincing us that the Brits had it coming. Earlier in the 19th Century there had been a mutual tolerance, mutual respect - within the context of an understanding that 'the Company' were in de facto command. And as for The Last Mughal. It's not going to get any better. Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor of India, was a mystic, an accomplished poet and a skilled calligrapher, but he will be mainly remembered for giving The Last Mughal is Dalrymple's saddest and loveliest work to date' Elle. 'An exhaustive, deeply informed and compelling new book, bulging with 'The Indian rebellion of 1857-8 and the deposition of the last Mughal Emperor were events of epochal importance. William Dalrymple tells this dramatic 39 quotes from The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857: 'The histories of Islamic fundamentalism and European imperialism have very often The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple 5,899 ratings, 4.14 average rating, 459 reviews Open Preview. The Last Mughal is an engrossing history of the events that occurred in Deli, India in 1857, which centers about the Emperor - the Last I cannot help but recall these words, after reading William Dalrymple's brilliant "The Last Mughal". William Dalrymple's latest book uses Bahadur Shah Zafar Author:William Dalrymple Language: eng Format: mobi, epub ISBN: 9780307267399 Publisher: Knopf Published: 2006-06-07T22:00:00+00:00. THE SPEED OF BAKHT KHAN'S fall was exacerbated by his hard-line "Wahhabi" views. There were suggestions that he did not "supply the wants" of high-caste Author of White Mughals, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali, In Xanadu, The last Mughal, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Tras Los Pasos de Marco Polo. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty. by William Dalrymple 2 editions - first published in 2007. William Dalrymple is an award-winning writer and director of India's Jaipur literary festival. He fell in love with India aged eighteen, and the country has been at the centre of his writing since. His latest book, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, is the last in what he calls the East India Company Dalrymple's recreation of the city of Delhi under siege forms the monumental backdrop to the tragic figure of the eponymous monarch, the "last Mughal". Dalrymple sees 1857 and the fall of the Mughal dynasty as the end of Indo-Islamic culture. In conclusion, he comments on those Muslims of 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 Dalrymple's recreation of the city of Delhi under siege forms the monumental backdrop to the tragic figure of the eponymous monarch, the "last Mugh