Delhi, 1857: a bloody warning to today's imperial occupiers


	Delhi, 1857: a bloody warning to today's imperial occupiers

arifsali

5-11-2007 4:21 PM

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arifsali says:

William Dalrymple's The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857, has just been published in paperback by Bloomsbury

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5-12-2007 3:23 PM

Kore7

Another excellent clip.

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