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The Broken Script: Delhi under the East India Company and the Fall of the Mughal Dynasty, 1803-1857
Author: Swapna Liddle
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
Pages: 456
Price: Rs 899
Percival Spear’s book with the evocative title Twilight of the Mughals was among the first books to be written about the period when Mughal Empire symbolically was in existence but in terms of power and authority non-existent. It was a strange and bizarre period of transition that the British rulers rather enjoyed because it enabled them to exercise power without responsibility.
The words “British rulers” in the previous sentence is used deliberately. Since the passing of
