In Delhi on 21 September 1857 emperor Bahadur Shah, a prisoner of the English, sat on a Charpoy in the verandah of the house, formerly the residence of Begum Samroo. A few miles away in the centre of the Chandani Chowk, outside the Kotwal’s residence, the bulletridden bodies of his two sons, stipped, save a rag around the loins, lay naked on the stone slabs. These were the end results of the historic slege of Delhi which marked a furning point in the great ...
