Two Historic Trials in Red Fort

Moti Ram, Two Historic Trials in Red Fort: An Authentic Account of the Trial by a General Court Martial of Captain Shah Nawaz Khan, Captain P K Sahgal and Lt. G S Dhilton, and the Trial by a European Military Commission of Emperor Bahadur Shah, New Delhi: Moti Ram, 1946

ii, vi, 422 pages, 2 two pages of black and white illustrations, one folding leaf; original green cloth
9.5 x 6.5 in (23.7 x 16.2 cm)

Bahadur Shah Zafar, the poet-king, was catapulted into the limelight when the 'mutineers' from Meerut arrived in Delhi on 11 May 1857. After the 'mutiny', the last of the great Mughals went on trial on 27 January 1858 for aiding and abetting the 'mutineers' of 1857. The 21 day trial in the Diwan-i-Khas, the Hall of Special Audience, in Zafar's own palace, saw the British produce dozens of witnesses and documents to demonstrate Zafar's complicity in the 'Mutiny.' He was eventually found guilty and exiled to Burma, where he died year later.