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Country United Kingdom Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing OCLC 70402016 ISBN 9780670999255 | 4.1/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 2006 Originally published 2006 Genre History Subject Narrative history | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardcover, paperback) Followed by Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India Similar Works by William Dalrymple, India books, History books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 is a 2006 historical book by William Dalrymple.
Contents
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Summary
The book, Dalrymple's sixth, and his second to reflect his long love affair with the city of Delhi, 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.
It won the 2006 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for History and Biography, and the 2007 Vodafone Crossword Book Award.
References
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