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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Penguin India
Pages: 575 pages
Binding: Paperback
INTRODUCTION
The Last Mughal is a historical description of the circumstances leading up to the insurgency of 1857,...