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The last mughal review5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The remarkable thing about Dalrymple’s account is its sources. Though the East India Trading Company had to have Zafar’s permission in order to operate in India, they actually held most of the power by this point. By Zafar’s time, he barely had power over the Red Fort in Delhi. At its height, the Mughal empire controlled the entire Indian subcontinent. The power of the Mughals had also eroded drastically by the time the Uprising occurred. He makes Zafar’s role in the Uprising a reluctant one. Dalrymple paints a picture in which Zafar was forced to side with the mutineers because of a lack of options. ![]() By the time the rebellion occurred, Zafar was eighty some say he was senile. Though he was a Sufi mystic, a poet and a scholar, he was not an adequate war-time leader. The book centers on the last Mughal Emperor, Zafar. ![]() William Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal is an incredibly detailed picture of the Indian sepoy rebellion against the British East India Trading Company in Delhi in 1857. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 Book review: William Dalrymple's *The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857* ![]()
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