Vodafone Crossword Non-Fiction Award Winner 2007
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History 2007
Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was a mystic, a talented poet,
and a skilled calligrapher, who, though deprived of real political power by the
East India Company, succeeded in creating a court of great brilliance, and
presided over one of the great cultural renaissances of Indian history. In 1857
it was Zafar's blessing to a rebellion among the Company's own Indian troops
that transformed an army mutiny into the largest uprising the British Empire
ever had to face.
The Last Mughal is a portrait of the dazzling Delhi Zafar personified,