William Dalrymple: 23 books

From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives: the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the “age of darkness” predicted...

Peeling back the layers of Delhi’s centuries-old history, City of Djinns is an irresistible blend of research and adventure. Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from...

From the author of The Last Mughal (“A compulsively readable masterpiece” —The New York Review of Books), an exquisite, mesmerizing book that illuminates the remarkable ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the region’s rapid change—a...

One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of ‘Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s...

Ein Buch ganz nah am Herzen der indischen Kultur. Neun faszinierende Porträts aus dem heutigen Indien - neun Menschen auf höchst unterschiedlichen spirituellen Wegen in einer Gesellschaft , in der sich Globalisierung, Alltagsleben und Religion in einmaliger Weise durchdringen. William Dalrymple...

Nel 1839 un'armata britannica di quasi ventimila uomini invade l’Afghanistan per insediare sul trono del paese un sovrano fantoccio, Shah Shuja, e contrastare così la temuta espansione russa in Asia Centrale: è l’inizio del Grande Gioco, la sanguinosa partita a scacchi tra potenze coloniali...

Nove storie sospese tra fragilità umana e convinzioni incrollabili, in cui la fede e i rituali si confrontano con un mondo colpito da un mutamento convulso. L’asceta indù e la prostituta sacra, il mistico sufi e il tantrista necromante nell'India dei computer e dei centri commerciali: vite che...

An eminent historian looks to the present and future of Afghanistan as the U.S. withdraws from the longest war in its history. THE BROOKINGS ESSAY: In the spirit of its commitment to high-quality, independent research, the Brookings Institution has commissioned works on major topics of public policy...

Le jeune James Achilles Kirkpatrick veut devenir officier dans l'armée de la Compagnie anglaise des Indes orientales. Devenu Lord Resident de la Compagnie, il est conquis par Khair un-Nissa, la petite nièce du Premier ministre d'Hyderabad... Une captivante fresque de l'Inde du siècle des Lumières, sur fond de guerre coloniale, d'intrigues de harem et d'espionnage.