White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India by William Dalrymple |
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'Dalrymple is probably the best travel writer of his generation' Daily Mail 'The future of travel writing lies in the hands of gifted authors like Dalrymple' Sara Wheeler, Independent
The author of the award-winning City of Djinns returns to India in this series of essays. Dalrymple delves deep into local affairs in India, revealing the growing functional problems of a country made up of a patchwork of extreme beliefs, caste and levels of modernity/antiquity. Illustrating individual battles, characters and moments, he powerfully evokes the life and land of this fascinating country. (Kirkus UK)
The author of the award-winning City of Djinns returns to India in this series of essays. Dalrymple delves deep into local affairs in India, revealing the growing functional problems of a country made up of a patchwork of extreme beliefs, caste and levels of modernity/antiquity. Illustrating individual battles, characters and moments, he powerfully evokes the life and land of this fascinating country. (Kirkus UK)
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William Dalrymple, who wrote about India in "City of Djinns", returns to the country in a series of essays. Featured in the pages this work are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying India's first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet; and a palace where port and cigars are still carried to guests on a miniature silver steam train. In the course of his travels, Dalrymple meets such figures as Imran Khan, Ismail Merchant, Benazir Bhutto and Baba Sehgal, the Indian Gary Glitter; he witnesses the macabre nightly offering to the bloodthirsty goddess Parashakti - She Who is Seated on a Throne of Five Corpses; he experiences civil war in Kashmir and caste massacres in the badlands of Bihar, and dines with a drug baron on the North-West Frontier; he discovers such oddities as the terrorist apes of Jaipur (only brought to book when the municipality began impregnating their bananas with opium); and the shrine where Lord Krishna is said to make love every night to his 16,108 wives and 64,732 milkmaids.
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