William Dalrymple

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A Year in Delhi

City of Djinns

The Anarchy, White Mughals, Return of a King and the Last Mughal

The Company Quartet

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 Resident At The Court Of The Nizam Of Hyderabad When In 1798 He Glimpsed Khair Un-Nissa Most Excellent Among Women' The Great-Niece Of The Nizam'S Prime Minister. He Fell In Love With Khair, And Overcame Many Obstacles To Marry Her Not Least Of Which Was The Fact That She Was Locked Away In Purdah And Engaged To A Local Nobleman. Eventually, While Remaining Resident, Kirkpatrick Converted To Islam, And According To Indian Sources Even Became A Double-Agent Working For The Hyderabadis Against The East India Company. Possessing All The Sweep Of A Great Nineteenth-Century Novel, White Mughals Is A Remarkable Tale Of Harem Politics, Secret Assignations, Court Intrigue, Religious Disputes And Espionage.

Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India

White Mughals

In Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India itself, William Dalrymple searches for evidence of Kali Yug, the Hindu "age of darkness." Venturing to places rarely visited by foreigners, he travels deep into guerilla territory with the Tamil Tigers. Visits Benazir Bhutto and meets the drug lords of the North West Frontier. He inveils a region where the strengths and problems of both modernity and tradition remain to be reconciled. The result is this engrossing, eagle-eyed and utterly enthralling collection."--Back cover.

Indian Travels & Encounters

The Age of Kali

Information for Colonel William Dalrymple of Glenmuir, Against Thomas Wallace of Cairnhill, Lord Monzie Reporter

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T112108 Dublin: printed for George Bonham; for W. and H. Whitestone, R. Moncrieffe, T. Walker, M. Mills, L. White, J. Beatty, and R. Burton, 1782. xv, [1],132p.,6 plates; 8°

Tacticks. By Lieutenant Colonel William Dalrymple, of the Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot

A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium ‘In his third book William Dalrymple has dug deep to present the case of the Middle East’s downtrodden Christians. More hard-hitting than either of his previous books, From the Holy Mountain is driven by indignation. While leavened with his characteristic jauntiness and humour, it is also profoundly shocking. Time and time again in the details of Dalrymple’s discoveries I found myself asking: why do we not know this? The sense of unsung tragedy accumulates throughout the chapters of this book...From the Holy Mountain is the most rewarding sort of travel book, combining flashes of lightly-worn scholarship with a powerful sense of place and the immediacy of the best journalism. But more than that it is a passionate cri de coeur for a forgotten people which few readers will be able to resist’—Philip Marsden, Spectator.

A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium

From The Holy Mountain

Sebuah kisah cinta tak biasa antara seorang bangsawan pribumi Indiaketurunan Nabi Muhammad Saw dan perwira Inggris yang terselip dalam konflik politik Seorang kerabat kerajaan mengandung benih dari laki-laki Inggris di luar nikah! Pembangkangan terhadap tradisi endogami dalam Kerajaan Islam Mughal itu dilakukan oleh Khair un-Nissa. Ia adalah bangsawan pribumi 14 tahun yang cantik. Gadis itu merupakan keponakan Perdana Menteri Hyderabad sekaligus keturunan Nabi Muhammad. Nissa jatuh cinta dengan seorang residen Inggris, James Achilles Kirkpatrick, yang ditugaskan menjadi perwira East India Company (EIC) di Hyderabad. Meskipun ia telah bertunangan, mereka tetap menjalin hubungan secara diam-diam. Desas-desus mengenai hubungan mereka pun akhirnya berkembang menjadi sebuah skandal besar di kalangan kerajaan Islam India. Ketika Nissa dan Kirkpatrick berusaha bertahan atas tekanan yang terus diberikan oleh keluarga kerajaan, mereka juga harus menghadapi tantangan dari pemerintah Inggris yang terus mendesak Kirkpatrick agar meninggalkan Nissa demi kepentingan politik dagangnya. Akankah latar belakang Nissa sebagai keluarga muslim terkemuka yang memegang teguh tradisi endogami—pernikahan satu kerabat--menghalangi hubungan pasangan lintas agama dan budaya itu? Benarkah tidak ada lagi konflik yang menunggu setelah mereka berhasil mengatasi berbagai tekanan yang menerjangnya? Temukan sensasi inspiratif dari sisi lain sejarah India dengan berbagai asumsi budaya dan politik dalam buku ini! [Mizan, Bentang, Inspiratif, Sejarah, Indonesia]

From the Dust Jacket:  A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet-then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death. A woman leaves her middle-class family in Calcutta, and her job in a jute factory, only to find unexpected love and fulfillment living as a Tantric skull feeder in a remote cremation ground. A prison warden from Kerala becomes, for two months of the year, a temple dancer and is worshipped as an incarnate deity; then, at the end of February each year, he returns to prison. An illiterate goat herd from Rajasthan keeps alive an ancient 4,000-line sacred epic that he, virtually alone, still knows by heart. A devadasi-or temple prostitute-initially resists her own initiation into sex work, yet pushes both her daughters into a trade she now regards as a sacred calling. Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. Exquisite and mesmerizing, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple's first travel book in over a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change. A distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions, Nine Lives is a modern Indian Canterbury Tales.

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