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William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s most successful travel writers, whose highly entertaining books elegantly combine scholarship and story-telling, trans-cultural investigations and romance. With his most recent books - the best-selling White Mughals (2002) and the lavishly praised The Last Mughal (2006) - he has become an authoritative ...
Synopsis. Set in and around Hyderabad at the beginning of the nineteenth century, White Mughals tells the story of the improbably romantic love affair and marriage between James Achilles Kirkpatrick, a rising star in the East India Company, and Khair-un-Nisa, a Hyderabadi princess. Pursuing Kirkpatrick's passionate affair through the archives ...
The Last Mughal is a portrait of the dazzling Delhi Zafar personified, the story of the last days of the great Mughal capital and its final destruction in the catastrophe of 1857. William Dalrymple's powerful retelling of this fateful course of events is shaped from groundbreaking material: previously untranslated Urdu and Persian manuscripts ...
19 de nov. de 2023 · William Dalrymple, a British writer, historian, and travel author, is widely recognized for his deeply insightful and captivating exploration of India and its rich history. Born in Scotland, Dalrymple studied at Ampleforth College before attending Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in History.
William Dalrymple and Anita Anand explore the stories, personalities and events of empire over the course of history. Listen on Apple Podcasts Requires subscription and macOS 11.4 or higher
11 de abr. de 2024 · William Dalrymple’s new book (Source: Amazon) Indian mathematics had also begun its slow journey west. A delegation of Ujjain’s mathematicians and astronomers met the Barmakids, viziers in-charge of the Arab world. Eventually, the Barmakids fell from grace, but many Sanskrit texts had already been placed in present-day Iraq.
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