Dastan-E-Ghadar: The Tale Of The Mutiny - Hardcover

Dehlvi, Zahir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670088919 ISBN 13: 9780670088911

Publisher: India Penguin, 2017

Synopsis

Zahir Dehlvi, an accomplished poet and young official in the court of Bahadur Shah Zafar, lived through the cataclysmic 1857 Revolt that changed the course of history, marking the end of Mughal dominion and the instatement of the British Raj. Dehlvi s memoir, written on his deathbed, chronicles the fading glory of the Mughal court and most importantly, pivots on the violent siege of Shahjahanabad. Translated into English for the first time, Dehlvi s memoir is intensely vivid and moving. An immensely significant historical record of the Revolt as it unfolded, Dastan-e-Ghadar is also a compelling personal account that conjures the dramatically changing world Dehlvi lived in.

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About the Author:

Zahir Dehlvi (1835 1911) was an official in the Mughal court of Bahadur Shah Zafar and also an accomplished poet. He was witness to a crucial moment in history and his memoir remains the most richly detailed surviving account of the course of the 1857 Revolt and its bitter consequences. Forced to flee Delhi in the aftermath of the Revolt, his later life was full of tribulation. He eventually settled in Hyderabad where he died.

About this edition

• Publisher: India Penguin
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0670088919
• ISBN 13: 9780670088911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350