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 CHAPTER IX

DELHI IN MOGHAL TIMES Babar — Humayun — Akbar — Jahangir — Shah Jahan — Aurangzeb — Puppet Emperors — Mahomed Shah — Nadir Shah's Invasion — Ahmad Khan Abdali — Mahratta predominance — Shah Alam — Ghulam Kadir — A Blind Emperor 210

CHAPTER X

DELHI UNDER "JOHN COMPANY"

Battle of Delhi — Lord Lake's Conquest — Siege of Delhi by Holkar — Shah Alam a Pensioner — Akbar Shah — British Residents — Bahadur Shah — The Succession Question. 253

CHAPTER XI

THE MUTINY OF 1857 AND THE SIEGE

Outbreak at Meerut— The Mutineers at Delhi— Defence of the Magazine — The flight — Advance of the Avenging Army — Battle of Ghazi-ud-din Nagar — Battle of Badli-ki-Sarai — Events of the Siege — Arrival of the Siege Train in September — Siege Batteries — The Assault — Fighting in the City — The City retaken — Capture of the King. 262

CHAPTER XII

DELHI SINCE 1857

The City under a Military Governor — Advance of the Jodhpur Legion — Battle of Narnoul — Trial of Prominent Rebels and of the King — Delhi transferred to the Punjab — Assumption of Government by the Crown — Proclamation of a British Empress of India — Delhi the Commercial Capital of Northern India. . 295