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Dalrymple Lecture Flyer PDF
Dalrymple Lecture Flyer PDF
Bahadur Shab Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, presided over one of the greatest cultural renaissances of Indian history
but while his Mughal ancestors had controlled most of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the 82 year-old Zafar was king in
name only. When, in 1857, Zafar gave his blessing to a rebellion among the East India Company's Indian troops, it
transformed the army mutiny into the largest uprising the British Empire ever had to face.The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's
Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat and it reduced Zafar to an anonymous
grave in a prison in Rangoon and his beloved Delhi to a battered, empty ruin.
William Dalrymple's powerful retelling of the last days of the great Mughal capital is shaped from groundbreaking material:
previously untranslated Urdu and Persian manuscripts that include eyewitness accounts and the records of the Delhi courts,
police and administration during the Siege.
His lecture will provide context to the actions of six of the regiments that took part, namely: the 52nd Light Infantry,
1st/60th Rifles and 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment, all antecedent regiments of The Rifles (the new Regiment
formed on 1 February, 2007); the Sirmoor Battalion of Goorkhas, an antecedent regiment of The Royal Gurkha Rifles; the
Kemaoon Battalion, later the 3rd Gurkha Rifles, now a part of the Indian Army; and the Guides Infantry, now a part of
the Pakistan Army. Their story is told in a book to be published on 1 July entitled Rifles and Kukris: Delhi, 1857 by
Lieutenant-General Sir Christopher Wallace, who will introduce William Dalrymple.
All those interested in what happened at Delhi in 1857 and in the actions of these regiments should
not hesitate to attend this talk, with all proceeds benefiting The Royal Green Jackets and The Gurkha
museums.
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