A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple’s previous work.

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India was the forgotten heart of the ancient world

For a millennium and a half, from about 250 BC to 1200 AD…

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…

A detailed examination of the biblical account of creation, with a particular focus on the book of Genesis. Drawing on a wide variety of textual and archaeological sources, William Dalrymple…

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…

Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers, London, in 1997. Subsequently published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, in 1998 –Title page…

The epic story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…