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- City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi 811 copies, 13 reviews
- From the Holy Mountain 778 copies, 11 reviews
- White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India 742 copies, 7 reviews
- The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 647 copies, 13 reviews
- The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters 478 copies, 9 reviews
- In Xanadu 475 copies, 8 reviews
- Nine lives: in search of the sacred in modern India 352 copies, 14 reviews
- The Return of a King 75 copies, 2 reviews
- Lonely Planet Sacred India 13 copies
- Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857 (Asia Society) 6 copies
- A Journey Through India: Company School Pictures 1 copy
- Edge of Faith 1 copy
- A new guide to Helmsley Parish 1 copy
- 'Last of the Mughals' in AFR, 3 Nov 2006 1 copy
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It tells what happened when the British Governor-General of India was convinced to invade Afghanistan – in order to save India, ‘the jewel of the British empire’, from an imaginary Russian threat. Of course, this paved the path for subsequent wars … and sheds devastating light on the one being waged now.
Dalrymple has immersed himself in literature telling the Afghan side of the story; the result is, according to the Guardian, ‘a racy tale of imperial misadventure and Victorian jihadism’ that shows us ‘ourselves as others see us’.
William Dalrymple appears as part of a double-bill with Anita Desai. (rodneyvc)… (more) William Dalrymple has 1 media appearance. William Dalrymple has 11 past events. (show)  William Dalrymple William Dalrymple ( In Xanadu, Nine Lives, The Last Mughal, Return of a King, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali) William Dalrymple is the author of seven acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book award; the bestselling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain's most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian.www.williamdalrymple.uk.com (added from Random House)… (more) William Dalrymple William Dalrymple ( In Xanadu, Nine Lives, The Last Mughal, Return of a King, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali) William Dalrymple is the author of seven acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book award; the bestselling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain's most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian.www.williamdalrymple.uk.com (added from Random House)… (more) William Dalrymple William Dalrymple ( In Xanadu, Nine Lives, The Last Mughal, Return of a King, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali) William Dalrymple is the author of seven acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book award; the bestselling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain's most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian.www.williamdalrymple.uk.com (added from Random House)… (more) William Dalrymple William Dalrymple ( In Xanadu, Nine Lives, The Last Mughal, Return of a King, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali) William Dalrymple is the author of seven acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book award; the bestselling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain's most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian.www.williamdalrymple.uk.com (added from Random House)… (more) William Dalrymple William Dalrymple ( In Xanadu, Nine Lives, The Last Mughal, Return of a King, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali) William Dalrymple is the author of seven acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book award; the bestselling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain's most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian.www.williamdalrymple.uk.com (added from Random House)… (more) William Dalrymple William Dalrymple ( In Xanadu, Nine Lives, The Last Mughal, Return of a King, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali) William Dalrymple is the author of seven acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book award; the bestselling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain's most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian.www.williamdalrymple.uk.com (added from Random House)… (more) William Dalrymple Literature Panel: The Last Mughal William Dalrymple reads from The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857. Discover a bygone era of matchless splendor--the period of the last Mughals. This evocative evening celebrates the sweet, poignant poetry and ghazals of the Mughal court, brought to life by celebrated author William Dalrymple reading from his award-winning book The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857. Experience a forgotten world of emperors, poets, courtesans, politics, bayonets, intrigue, and love. FREE, no tickets required. (wisemetis)… (more) Sacred and Profane Fatima Bhutto; William Dalrymple, Nine lives: in search of the sacred in modern India. The Afghan born Pakistani writer, Fatima Bhutto, is a member of an elite and tragic political dynasty. Both her father, Murtaza, and her aunt, Benazir Bhutto, were murdered. Her book, Songs of Blood and Sword, is the story of her warrior caste family, her search to uncover the truth of her father's death and the history of the nation. William Dalrymple's Nine Lives is a distillation of his twenty-five years exploring India and writing about its rich cultural traditions. They discuss the co-existence of a deep seated spiritual life and the brutality and corruption of contemporary politics in today's sub-continent. (DeadGoodBooks)… (more)
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