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William Dalrymple
Born on March 20th, 1965, William Dalrymple grew up on the shores of Firth of Forth. He made an early mark on the literary scene with his first book In Xanadu. which he wrote when he was all of twenty two. The book won him several awards. Dalrymple moved to New Delhi to research his next book City of Djinns and there was no looking back. His books reflect a keen interest in India, Pakistan, the Middle East, Mughal rule, the Muslim world and early Eastern Christianity. He is known for both his travel and history writing and all his books have won him awards. William Dalrymple is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and is the founder and co-director of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival. Apart from writing books, Dalrymple is also a broadcaster and a frequent contributor of articles to magazines. Bibliography:In Xanadu City of Djinns From the Holy Mountain The Age of Kali Sufi Soul, The Mystic Music of Islam Begums, Thugs & White Mughals White Mughals The Last Mughal Nine Lives http://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dalrymple_%28historian%29
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Price: Rs 599Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 James Achilles Kirkpatrick landed on the shores of eighteenth-century India as an ambitious soldier of the East India Company. Although eager to make his name in the subjection of a nation, it was he who was conquered—not by an army but by a Muslim Indian princess. Kirkpatrick was the British read more... |
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Price: Rs 399Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 Delivered in 4-7 business days 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 eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven read more... |
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Price: Rs 399Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 Delivered in 4-7 business days While waiting for the results of his college exams, William Dalrymple decides to fill in his summer break with a trip. But the vacation he plans is no light-hearted student jaunt - he decides to retrace the epic journey of Marco Polo from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the ruined palace of Kubla Kahn, north read more... |
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Price: Rs 499Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 Delivered in 4-7 business days From the prize-winning author of White Mughals and City of Djinns , Nine Lives is a distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions – a modern Indian Canterbury Tales which introduces us to characters and takes us deep into worlds we could never read more... |
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Price: Rs 399Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 Delivered in 4-7 business days William Dalrymple chronicles ten years of living and traveling in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and India. Here he discovers a region falling into a time of darkness, discord and disintegration which according to ancient Hindu cosmology is known as the Age of Kali. Despite the area's strife and discontent, read more... |
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Price: Rs 550Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 Delivered in 4-7 business days Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was a mystic, a talented poet, and a skilled calligrapher, who, though deprived of real political power by the East India Company, succeeded in creating a court of great brilliance, and presided over one of the great cultural renaissances of Indian read more... |
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Price: Rs 399Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 Delivered in 4-7 business days In 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, read more... |
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Price: Rs 1,719FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls rests.” Bahadur read more... |
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