This artwork depicts the fall of Delhi in September 1857. British forces entering the city through breached walls, fires visible across the rooftops, the end of the uprising's symbolic centre.
Rebel soldiers had declared Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, their sovereign in May 1857. The British response was a siege that lasted months. When they broke through, the violence was not limited to combatants. Neighbourhoods were cleared. Property was confiscated. The Red Fort was converted to military barracks. The population of Delhi fell dramatically in the months that followed, through killing, expulsion, and flight.
The fall of Delhi ended the most serious challenge to British rule India had yet produced. It also ended the Mughal dynasty. Bahadur Shah Zafar was tried by a military tribunal and exiled to Rangoon, where he died in 1862, buried in a grave his British captors deliberately left unmarked.
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