About the Book: Dastan-e-Ghadar: The Tale of the Mutiny
Zahir Dehlvi, an accomplished poet and young official in the court of Bahadur
Shah Zafar, lived through the cataclysmic 1857 Revolt that changed the course of
history, markingthe end of Mughal dominion and the instatement of the British
Raj. Dehlvis memoir, written on his deathbed, not only chronicles the fading
glory of the Mughal court and his entry into a vanishing way of life, but also,
most importantly, pivots on the horrifying spectacle of the Revolt and its
aftermath-from the violent siege of Shahjahanabad to the bloody reprisals that
followed. We learn about the brutal murder of