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One day Lal shahbaz was wandering in the desert with his friend Sheikh Bhaa ud-Din Zakariya. It was ...

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People think of our life as harsh, and of course in many ways it is. But going into the unknown worl...

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Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. T...

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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, inde...

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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

...'unless you convert to Orthodoxy, you too will follow your Pope down that valley, through the sco...

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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

Certainly If John moschos where to come back today it is likely that he would find much more than th...

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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...

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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...

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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

But Khair did not need such proof of her husband's love for her. Over and over again,James had riske...

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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

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William Dalrymple (historian)

Historian

Born: 1965-03-20

Died: 1814-01-28

William Dalrymple (born March 20, 1965) is a Scottish historian, and writer, art historian and curator, as well as a prominent broadcaster and critic. His interests include the history and art of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Middle East, the Muslim world, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Jains and early Eastern Christianity.More