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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857by William Dalrymple;Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empireby Alex Von Tunzelmann

โœ Scribed by Review by: Lucian W. Pye

Book ID
125242628
Publisher
Council on Foreign Relations
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
210 KB
Volume
86
Category
Article
ISSN
0015-7120

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