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City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
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 "dead" cities o ...Show more
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
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 herself to death. Nine peopl ...Show more
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
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Category: History
From William Dalrymple--award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer--a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West's greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time.With access to newly d ...Show more
The Anarchy - The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India - A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international ...Show more
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest con ...Show more
White Mughals - Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair-un-Nissa
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