The Last Mughal
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The Last Mughal
| Full title | The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 |
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| Author | William Dalrymple |
| Published | 2006 |
| Pages | 560 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Dalrymple worked the Mutiny Papers — thousands of Urdu and Persian documents from the 1857 uprising — and rebuilt the siege of Delhi from the Indian side, around the last Mughal emperor. |
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- Replies to @typesfast — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. The full set of replies lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
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