Bahadur Shah Zafar and the War of 1857 in Delhi

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Character of Bahadur Shah II. 2. Bahadur Shah II and the Sepoys. 3. Bahadur Shah and the British. 4. Bahadur Shah and the British (continued). 5. Confronting a formidable situation. 6. Grappling with terrible problems. 7. Fighting to Expel the English. 8. Unable to drive the English from the ridge. 9. Fall of Dehli. 10. Sources. Appendices. Select bibliography.

"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." (jacket)