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William Dalrymple is a bestselling author whose books include
In Xanadu
,
City of Djinns
,
From the Holy Mountain
,
White Mughals
,
The Last Mughal
and, most recently,
Nine Lives
. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the
Sunday Times
Young British Writer of the Year Award, the French Prix d’Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Prize, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone/Crossword Award for Non-fiction and has, prior to the shortlisting of
Return of a King
, been longlisted three times for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.
In Xanadu
City of Djinns
From the Holy Mountain
The Age of Kali
White Mughals
The Last Mughal
Return of a King
The Fall of Delhi, 1857
Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize
In May, 1857, India’s flourishing capital became the centre of the largest uprising the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj’s Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat.
The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic rule, and the individuals caught up in one of the bloodiest upheavals in history.
‘Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire’
Daily Telegraph
‘Unmatched … revolutionary’
Sunday Telegraph