Review: The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
User Review - Deon Stonehouse - GoodreadsShah Safar was in his 80's when it fell to him to either lead or reject the mutiny of 1857. Safar was a dreamer, a poet, and a mystic, the blood of his ancestors had diluted to a calm and placid ... Read full review
Review: The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
User Review - Tariq Mahmood - GoodreadsWhat a book, it is a historical masterpiece, completely factual and yet read like a novel end to end. This book should on the educational curriculum of every Indian and Pakistani. This is the second ... Read full review
Review: The Last Mughal: The Fall Of A Dynasty, Delhi, 1857
User Review - Ranjan - GoodreadsWilliam Dalrymple's THE LAST MUGHAL is a delightful account of a reluctant emperor thrust into a cause that he failed to live up to and the tragic consequences that eventually led to the consolidation ... Read full review
Review: The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
User Review - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsOn 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 ... Read full review
Review: The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
User Review - Michael Connolly - GoodreadsMughal Empire in India The Mughal empire was founded by Zahir ud-din Muhammad Babur by in 1526. Their culture was more Persian than Mongol. They built the Taj Mahal. In 18th century the Mughal Emperor ... Read full review
Review: The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
User Review - Mike - GoodreadsBefore the 1857 uprising, India was administered, not by the English government, but by the East India Company which relied on private armies for security, the precedent, I suppose, for Halliburton ... Read full review
Review: The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
User Review - Victorian Explorer - GoodreadsThe Last Mughal is a very ambitious book. It seemingly has a rather narrow focus – Delhi during the Mutiny of 1857 – but the scope is still immense. William Dalrymple went where few had gone before ... Read full review
Review: The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
User Review - K.subramanian - GoodreadsA detailed account of the life and times of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar. The book weaves a vivid description of the last Mughal who was a true dreamer and poet. He was entrapped by the ... Read full review
Review: The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
User Review - Sagnik Bakshi - GoodreadsThe Last Mughal, by William Dalrymple, is not about history, in the traditional sense of the word. Rather, it is a detailed reportage of the city of Delhi, and primarily its people, between May and ... Read full review
Review: The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
User Review - Sean Mccarrey - GoodreadsThis book was a really wonderful example of William Dalrymple's ability to transcend styles of writing, from his normal first person journalistic styled endeavors, to this book, which was more along ... Read full review
