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 .
On February 20, 2007 this book won Dalrymple the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for History and Biography.
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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 .
On February 20, 2007 this book won Dalrymple the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for History and Biography.
A Gresham College lecture by Dalrymple giving an overview and summarizing the topics of the book is available here.
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