Forgotten Mughals (Record no. 221382)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 8173044163
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency AL
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 954
Item number CHEF
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Personal name Cheema G S
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9 (RLIN) 15205
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Forgotten Mughals
Remainder of title A History of the later emperors of the house of Babar (1707-1857)
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2002
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 552 p,
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 22x14 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. A hundred and fifty years lie between the death of Aurangzeb and the final extinction of the Mughal empire. In its first hundred and fifty years the empire had seen six rulers, but during the next century and a half the Qila-i-Mualla would witness the passage of as many as eleven emperors - if one leaves out the six or seven failed pretenders. It was a period of violence and disorder, with armies constantly on the march across a landscape of increasing misery, impoverishment and desolation. The Forgotten Mughals is the story of these largely pageant emperors with their increasingly ineffectual ministers, and their gradual decline into irrelevance while younger and more powerful forces, both Indian and foreign, grappled with each other for the mastery of Hindostan. The landmark events like the wars of succession, the dictatorship of the Syed brothers, the Nadir Shahi and Durrani invasions with their attendant horrors, the bloodbath of Panipat and the final sack of Delhi in 1857 are all covered in detail. The book's strength lies in its anecdotal details, like that of young Muhammad Shah, hiding behind the ample skirts of the formidable Sadr un-Nissa, superintendent of the harem, and of Bidar Dil cowering in a closet, while the emissaries of Qutb-ul-Mulk tried, in vain, to convince his women that they had, in fact, come to call him to the throne. And who will believe today that, as part of the 'retributive justice' of the British, for nearly twenty years the Zinat masjid in Daryaganj was used as a bakery, and that the basement of the Fatehpuri mosque was sold to Seth Chuna Mall?"
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name CHEEMA (G S)
9 (RLIN) 15206
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type George Fernandes Collections
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     History St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/23/2013   954 CHEF GF03053 01/29/2022 01/29/2022 George Fernandes Collections