William Dalrymple

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Ranjit Singh’s Rock Of Power

An extract from a new book by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand on when the Koh-i-Noor resided in Lahore

Dec 10, 2016

| William Dalrymple Anita Anand
Crane Prince

Karen Knorr’s Photoshop vision places animals in Rajasthan’s palatial grandeur. The result is magical, absurd, gorgeous.

Apr 27, 2015

| William Dalrymple
Unseen Ajanta

The oldest classical Indian paintings, retrieved from time, and decay

Nov 24, 2014

| William Dalrymple
Hand In Hand On A Steep Hillside

Rivals join in coalition in the fraught politics of Afghanistan

Oct 13, 2014

| William Dalrymple
Room For Words

William Dalrymple on his surroundings, routine, and the quiet, personal quirks that allow him to write

May 28, 2012

| William Dalrymple
Souter Takes The Call

As the Great Game repeats itself, India must wake up to Karzai’s new moves

Aug 30, 2010

| William Dalrymple
The Glitter In The Godliness

India’s new affluence runs parallel to a new, homogenised Hinduism that is riding on a crest of religiosity. Gone with Nehruvian economics is Nehruvian secularism.

Jan 18, 2010

| William Dalrymple
The Dancer Of Kannur

In his compelling new book the acclaimed travel writer, explores the worlds of people deeply engaged with the sacred in a fast changing India.

Oct 12, 2009

| William Dalrymple
The Craftiness Beneath The 'Wah! Taj'

The socio-cultural eddies and political winds that swirl around our greatest icon

Oct 13, 2008

| William Dalrymple
Sisters Of Mannarkad

In this pocket of Kerala, local myth fuses Goddess Bhagavati and Mother Mary into family

Aug 11, 2008

| William Dalrymple

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'Several Gaps In Writing On Delhi'

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

Jan 15, 2008

| William Dalrymple
Venetian Treasures

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.

Sep 06, 2007

| William Dalrymple
Will Pakistan Survive?

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

Aug 30, 2007

| William Dalrymple
Plain Tales From British India

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

Apr 24, 2007

| William Dalrymple

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