He was an old man by then. Blind, living in the ruins of his palace, what was once his empire in tatters around him. A contemporary described Shah Allam II, emperor of the Mughals, as a “wretched King of shreds and patches." By 1803, Allam's kingdom was particularly threadbare. His old enemy, the British East India Company (EIC) had bested him once agai…
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