Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

By combining the Company’s own Indian armies with the still potent mystique of the Mughals, Zafar’s hesitant acceptance of the nominal leadership of the revolt in due course turned it from a simple army mutiny—albeit one supported by an incoherent eruption of murder and looting by Delhi’s civilians—into the single most serious armed challenge any W

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