This latest offering from William Dalrymple is an absolute feast and together with White Mughals and his City of the Djinns provides the ideal backdrop for this trip. THM was four years of solid research which then took Dalrymple five months to write. The central character is Bahadur Shan Zafar II and the book portrays the events of 1857 the Uprising or so-called Mutiny and the re-taking of Old Delhi by the bloodthirsty, barbaric and destructive British Field Force led by the psychopathic John Nicholson.
Dalrymple deserves some serious recognition for TLM, a five hundred page stunner.
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