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082			_223 _a954.0924 _bNAYT
100			_aPramod K Nayar Ed _9124491
245			_aTrial of Bahadur Shah Zafar
260			_aHyderabad _bOrient Longman _c2007
300			_alxxvi,315p. _bPB _c24x16cm.
365			_2History _b465.00 _c₹ _d465.00
520			_aBahadur 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.
650			_aIndian History _9124492
650			_aMughal King _9124493
700			_aNAYAR (Pramod K) Ed _9124494
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