The Last Mughal

The Last Mughal

Infobox Book
name = The Last Mughal
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image_caption = William Dalrymple with the "Mutiny Papers" at the National Archives, New Delhi
author = William Dalrymple
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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subject = Narrative history
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publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing
pub_date = 2002
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media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
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isbn = 0006550967
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preceded_by = Begums Thugs and White Mughals
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"The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857" is a 2006 historical book by William Dalrymple.

The book, Dalrymple's sixth, won praise for its use of "The Mutiny Papers", which included previously ignored Indian accounts of the events of 1857. He worked on these documents in association with the Urdu scholar Mahmood Farooqui ["Last Mughal", xxv; "TLS", 24 Nov 2005; "The Guardian", 11 Nov 2006; "Hindustan Times", 5 Nov 2006.] .

On February 20 2007 this book won Dalrymple the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for History and Biography.

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External links

* [http://indianmuslims.in/the-last-moghul/ Review of 'The Last Moghul']


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