Tears of the Begum: Stories of the Survivors of the Uprising of 1857 Faiz the newspaper column that transcends

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Tears of the Begum: Stories of the Survivors of the Uprising of 1857 Faiz the newspaper column that transcendsAUTHOR : Khwaja Hasan Nizami TRANSLATED BY: Rana Safvi GENRE : Translation SYNOPSIS: After the fall of Delhi and Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar's tragic departure from the Red Fort in 1857, members of the royal Mughal court had to flee to safer places. Driven out from their palaces and palanquins onto the streets in search of food and shelter, the dethroned royals scrambled to survive. Some bore their fate with a bitter pride, others succumbed to the