- Author Name : William Dalrymple
- Subject : Biography, History
- Language : English
- Cover : Paper Back
- No of Pages : 575
- Publish Year : 2006
The book, Dalrymple's sixth, and his second to reflect his long love affair with the city of Delhi, won praise for its use of "The Mutiny Papers", which included previously ignored Indian accounts of the events of 1857. He worked on these documents in association with the Urdu scholar Mahmood Farooqui.