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Book Delhi in 1857

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  • Release : 1980
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  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Delhi in 1857 written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar

Download or read book The Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bahadur Shah Zafar, the poet-king, was catapulted into the limelight when the mutineers from Meerut arrived in Delhi on 11 May 1857. After the mutiny , the last of the great Mughals went on trial on 27 January 1858 for aiding and abetting the mutineers of 1857. The 21-day trial in the Diwan-i-Khas, the Hall of Special Audience, in Zafar s own palace, saw the British produce dozens of witnesses and documents to demonstrate Zafar s complicity in the Mutiny . He was eventually found guilty and exiled to Burma, where he died years later. The proceedings of this historic trial was first published in 1858, but has remained largely absent from studies and histories of colonial India. The current edition reproduces the text, documents and witness accounts of the day-by-day account of the trial. The Introduction, beginning with a short but comprehensive history of the East India Company and the Mutiny , places the trial in the context of the colonial state and its ideological structures. It then moves on to a reading of the trial s key narrative and rhetorical features. The text of the trial constitutes a great historical drama. The vast archive of evidence captures the theatre, the violence, the betrayals and the British anger. The legal arguments and eye-witness accounts reveal the human, political and bureaucratic dimensions of the trial of the nineteenth century. The Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar makes for fascinating reading for the history buff and anyone interested in India 1857.

Book Delhi in 1857  The trail of Bahadur Shah

Download or read book Delhi in 1857 The trail of Bahadur Shah written by Kripal Chandra Yadav and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Delhi in 1857

Download or read book Delhi in 1857 written by Kripal Chandra Yadav and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bahadur Shah Zafar and the War of 1857 in Delhi

Download or read book Bahadur Shah Zafar and the War of 1857 in Delhi written by Syed Mahdi Husain and published by Aakar Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even Though Much Literature On Bahadur Shah Zafar And The 1857 Revolt Exists, Mahdi Husain S Book Continues To Be Of Considerable Relevance To The Historians Of Modern India. It Is Rich In Details, And Offers A Dispassionate Interpretation Of The 1857 Revolt. The Book Brings Alive, To The Present-Day Reader, The Trauma Of Living In 1857, A Trauma That People Like Syed Ahmad Khan And The Poet Mirza Ghalib Experienced.

Book Trial of Muhammad Bahadur Shah  Titular King of Delhi  and of Mogul Beg  and Hajee  All of Delhi  for Rebellion Against the British Government  and Murder of Europeans During 1857

Download or read book Trial of Muhammad Bahadur Shah Titular King of Delhi and of Mogul Beg and Hajee All of Delhi for Rebellion Against the British Government and Murder of Europeans During 1857 written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last Mughal

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  • Author : William Dalrymple
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2009-08-17
  • ISBN : 1408806886
  • Pages : 819 pages

Download or read book The Last Mughal written by William Dalrymple and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph 'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard 'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal. In May 1857 India's flourishing capital became the centre of the bloodiest rebellion the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat. The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic destruction, and the individuals caught up in one of the most terrible upheavals in history, as an army mutiny was transformed into the largest anti-colonial uprising to take place anywhere in the world in the entire course of the nineteenth century.

Book The Trial Of Bahadur Shah Zafar

Download or read book The Trial Of Bahadur Shah Zafar written by Herbert Leonard Offley Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muhammad Bahadur Shah, II, King of Delhi, 1775-1862.

Book Besieged

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  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2010-07-16
  • ISBN : 8184759169
  • Pages : 662 pages

Download or read book Besieged written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Mahmood Farooqui, with notes on the Mutiny Papers and governance in Delhi 1857 by the translator When Delhi lay under siege for five harrowing months in the summer of 1857, the people of the city described the events as ghadar: a time of turbulence. Resources within the besieged city fell dangerously low and locals found the rebelling sepoys presence and the increased levies insufferable. Nonetheless, an extraordinary effort was launched by the government of Bahadur Shah Zafar to fight the British. Thousands of labourers and tonnes of materials were mobilized, funds were gathered, the police monitored food prices and a functioning bureaucracy was vigilantly maintained right until the walled city s fall. Then, as Delhi was transformed by the victorious British, these everyday sacrifices and the efforts of thousands of people to save their country were lost forever. In this groundbreaking work, Mahmood Farooqui presents the first extensive translations into English of the Mutiny Papers documents dating from Delhi s 1857 siege, originally written in Persian and Shikastah Urdu. The translations include such fascinating pieces as the constitution of the Court of Mutineers, letters from soldiers threatening to leave Delhi if they were not paid their salaries, complaints to the police about unruly soldiers, and reports of troublesome courtesans, spies, faqirs, doctors, volunteers and harassed policemen. Shifting focus away from the conventional understanding of the events of 1857, these translations return ordinary and anonymous men and women back into the history of 1857. Besieged offers a view of how the rebel government of Delhi organized the essential requirements of war food and labour, soldiers salaries, arms and ammunition but more than that, this deeply evocative book reveals the hopes, beliefs and failures of a people who lived through the tragic end of an era.

Book The Sovereign  Subject and Colonial Justice

Download or read book The Sovereign Subject and Colonial Justice written by K. C. Yadav and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the trial of Bahadur Shah, a watershed moment in the 19th-century colonial history of India. The trial of Bahadur Shah raises the contentious issue of sovereignty – trial of Emperor Bahadur Shah, de jure power by de facto claimant to power, the English East India Company. There has been a lot of confusion and controversy over the trial ever since the proceedings began – its main architects could not define if it really was a juristic trial, a court of enquiry, a court-martial, or a general enquiry? This book sheds light on this event through the original, unprinted manuscript of the Trial at the end of the uprising of the 1857. It critically investigates the trial, mainly its architecture, grammar, functioning, and findings from historical, political, and juridical perspectives to determine, as far as possible, the actual position of Emperor Bahadur Shah, his strengths, and his weaknesses. Further, it examines the Rebellion of 1857, particularly in Delhi, and Bahadur Shah’s role therein. A key reading on justice in colonial history, this volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars of colonial and imperial history, modern history, political theory, and South Asia studies. It will also be of great interest to general readers interested in learning about the colonization of India by the British and its commercial arm East India Company.

Book Proceedings on the Trial of Muhammad Bahadur Shah  Titular King of Delhi  Before a Military Commission Upon a Charge of Rebellion  Treason and Murder

Download or read book Proceedings on the Trial of Muhammad Bahadur Shah Titular King of Delhi Before a Military Commission Upon a Charge of Rebellion Treason and Murder written by Muhammad Bahadur Shah II (King of Delhi) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Trial of Muhammad Bahadur Shah  Ex  King of Delhi

Download or read book The Trial of Muhammad Bahadur Shah Ex King of Delhi written by Herbert Leonard Offley Garrett and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trial of Muhammad Bahadur Shah  Titular King of Delhi  and of Mogul Beg  and Hajee  All of Delhi  for Rebellion Against the British Government  and Murder of Europeans During 1857

Download or read book Trial of Muhammad Bahadur Shah Titular King of Delhi and of Mogul Beg and Hajee All of Delhi for Rebellion Against the British Government and Murder of Europeans During 1857 written by Alfred Frederick Pollock Harcourt and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sovereign  Subject and Colonial Justice

Download or read book The Sovereign Subject and Colonial Justice written by Kripal Chandra Yadav and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume analyses the Trial of Bahadur Shah, a watershed moment in 19th century colonial history of India. The Trial of Bahadur Shah raises the contentious issue of sovereignty - trial of the Emperor Bahadur Shah, de jure power by de facto claimant to power, the English East India Company. There has been a lot of confusion and controversy over the Trial, ever since the proceedings began - its main architects could not define if it really was a juristic trial, a court of inquiry, a court-martial or a general inquiry? This book sheds light on this event through original unprinted manuscript of the Trial at end of the uprising of the 1857. It critically investigates the Trial, mainly its architecture, grammar, functioning and findings from historical, political and juridical perspectives to determine, as far as possible, the actual position of Emperor Bahadur Shah, his strengths and his weaknesses. Further, it examines the Rebellion of 1857, particularly in Delhi, and Bahadur Shah's role therein. A key reading on justice in colonial history, this volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars of colonial and imperial history, modern history, political theory, and South Asia studies. It will also of great interest to general readers interested in learning about the colonisation of India by the British and its commercial arm East India Company"--

Book Trial of Muhammad Bahadur Shah

Download or read book Trial of Muhammad Bahadur Shah written by Bahadur Shah (II, Emperor of Delhi, called Zafar) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life   Poetry of Bahadur Shah Zafar

Download or read book The Life Poetry of Bahadur Shah Zafar written by Aslam Parvez and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing, authentic and exemplary chronicle – studded with rare nuggets of information and enthralling anecdotes – of one of the most tragic figures of history who was witness to the end of a glorious dynasty First published in Urdu in 1986, this ‘labour of love’ brings alive the life and poetry of Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775 to 1862), the last Mughal Emperor. Zafar presided over a crucial period in Indian history when the country was subjugated and became a colony of the fast-expanding British Empire. Aslam Parvez’s account – with its wealth of detail – stands out in the manner in which it weaves together the strands of the political, the personal, the cultural and the literary aspects of a bygone era. This work is as much about the 1857 Rebellion as it is about Bahadur Shah Zafar, the reluctant leader of the rebels. The pages also evoke the captivating ambience of a period when formidable poets such as Mirza Ghalib, Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahim Zauq and Momin Khan Momin, apart from Zafar himself, came up with one creative gem after another. The author also provides a vivid and fascinating picture of Delhi during the last days of its cultural and literary splendour as the Mughal capital and as a custodian of Urdu literature and poetry. Finally, he recounts, in a touching manner, how Zafar spent his last days in Rangoon (where he had been exiled by the British) – a lonely and forgotten individual – far away from his beloved Delhi and from the trappings of his empire.

Book Zafar and the Raj

Download or read book Zafar and the Raj written by Amar Farooqui and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zafar and the Raj is a study of the formative phase of the history of colonial Delhi, a phase that from its duality, social and political, may be referred to as Anglo-Mughal. From 1803 onwards there were actually two centres of authority in the imperial city: the Residency and the Palace. The competing influence of the Palace determined the manner in which colonial authority was established in Delhi-and marked the limits of this authority. Simultaneously, the association of the Mughal emperor's name with Delhi, combined with the participation in fin-de-si