On a dark evening in November 1862 a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or panegyrics for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted ' No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II one of the most tolerant & likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent & doomed uprising. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad the end of both Mughal power & a remarkable culture.