I'm particularly astonished that there isn't a good biography of Shah Jahan or a modern description of the building of Shahjahanabad.

BY William Dalrymple 14 January 2008

A subtle rebuke to those who like to see the relationship between the Christian and Islamic world exclusively and simplistically in terms of jihads and crusades, clashes, violence and destruction.

BY William Dalrymple 5 September 2007

Sixty years after its birth, India faces a number of serious problems, but Pakistan's problems are on a different scale; indeed the country finds itself at a fundamental crossroads. We are back to the old question, and it is not just whither Pakistan

BY William Dalrymple 29 August 2007

Two new books exemplify the polarised debate: one claims the British Empire was comparable to slavery and fascism; while for the other, the Victorian administrators of the Indian Civil Service, far from being oppressive exploiters, in fact "represen

BY William Dalrymple 23 April 2007