![]() ![]() Meanwhile, I will be writing some interesting accounts from the book for you on this page so you can have a taste of this book's exhaustive research. ![]() Though I'm still reading this excellent piece of writing, a book review will be on the way shortly after it's completed. ![]() What makes this book unique is the use of those Urdu & Persian documents which contain the Bahadur Shah Zafar's courtroom diary, petitions of the commons towards Delhi Sultanate to take action against the British atrocities, daily life accounts of Delhi public, letters written by various notables to each other during that period & other documents which usually escape from historian's net. ![]() Nationalists wrote books from the Mughal & India's public perspective while British wrote about the subject from East India Company's perspective. However, the author states while introducing this book that most of the books already written have not accounted for almost 20,000 leaflets of Urdu & Persian literature (now predominantly available in National Archives of India) of that period. There are tons of books written on Mughal Dynasty, stating its traditions, domestic affairs, administration, etc. This book particularly covers the last decade of Mughal Dynasty & the period after 1857's "war of independence" as nationalist writers put it or "mutiny" as the British writers name it. ![]()
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