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| image = The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857.jpg<br />
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| author = [[William Dalrymple (historian)|William Dalrymple]]<br />
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| country = United Kingdom<br />
| language = English<br />
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| subject = [[Narrative history]]<br />
| genre = Non-fiction<br />
| publisher = [[Bloomsbury Publishing]]<br />
| pub_date = 2006<br />
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| media_type = Print ([[hardcover]], [[paperback]])<br />
| pages = 575 pp.<br />
| isbn = 978-0670999255<br />
| oclc = 70402016<br />
| preceded_by = [[Begums Thugs and White Mughals]]<br />
| followed_by = [[Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India]]<br />
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'''''The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857''''' is a 2006 historical book by [[William Dalrymple (historian)|William Dalrymple]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=HARSHAW|first1=TOBIN|title=King of Delhi|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/books/review/Harshaw.t.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|publisher=nytimes.com|accessdate=22 May 2017|date=April 22, 2007}}</ref><br />
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==Summary==<br />
The book, Dalrymple's sixth, and his second to reflect his long love affair with the city of Delhi, won praise for its use of "The Mutiny Papers", which included previously ignored Indian accounts of the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|events of 1857]]. He worked on these documents in association with the Urdu scholar [[Mahmood Farooqui]].<ref>''Last Mughal'', xxv; ''TLS'', 24 Nov 2005; ''The Guardian'', 11 Nov 2006; ''Hindustan Times'', 5 Nov 2006.</ref><br />
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==Critical response==<br />
The book won the 2006 [[Duff Cooper Memorial Prize]] for History and Biography, and the 2007 [[Vodafone Crossword Book Award]].<br />
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Geoffrey Moorhouse of ''[[The Guardian]]'' wrote,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Moorhouse|first1=Geoffrey|date=11 November 2006|title=Zafar the ditherer|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/11/featuresreviews.guardianreview6|accessdate=22 May 2017|website=[[The Guardian]]|publisher=theguardian.com}}</ref><blockquote>Dalrymple has here written an account of the Indian mutiny such as we have never had before, of the events leading up to it and of its aftermath, seen through the prism of the last emperor's life. He has vividly described the street life of the Mughal capital in the days before the catastrophe happened, he has put his finger deftly on every crucial point in the story, which earlier historians have sometimes missed, and he has supplied some of the most informative footnotes I have ever read. On top of that, he has splendidly conveyed the sheer joy of researching a piece of history, something every true historian knows, telling of his elation at discovering in Burma's national archives all Zafar's prison records, stored in Acrobat PDF files - "something the British Library has so far failed to achieve."</blockquote>Aamer Hussein of ''[[The Independent]]'' noted,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hussein|first1=Aamer|date=5 October 2006|title=The Last Mughal, by William Dalrymple Fall of a chessboard king|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-last-mughal-by-william-dalrymple-418825.html|accessdate=22 May 2017|website=[[The Independent]]|publisher=independent.co.uk}}</ref><blockquote>Dalrymple's recreation of the city of Delhi under siege forms the monumental backdrop to the tragic figure of the eponymous monarch, the "last Mughal." Aged 82 and abidingly fond of the arts of peace, [[Bahadur Shah Zafar]] was chosen as a mascot by an army seen as rebels and mutineers by the British, and as freedom fighters by some nationalist historians.</blockquote><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*''[http://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/1022318/Dalrymple_-_The_Last_Mughal.html The Last Mughal - online read]''<br />
*[https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-last-mughal Gresham College lecture by Dalrymple on ''The Last Mughal'']<br />
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[[Category:Books by William Dalrymple]]</div>>Guavabutter