William Dalrymple
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William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple is a Scottish historian, art historian, indologist, curator, broadcaster, critic and author.
Dalrymple (left) with Esther Freud (centre) and Hanan Ashrawi at PalFest 2008.
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company is a 2019 history book by William Dalrymple. It recounts the rise of the East India Company in the second half of the 18th century, against t
William Dalrymple
…was called to brief both the Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the White House on the lessons to be learned from Afghan history. In 2019 he published The Anarchy, a history of the Indian subcontinent during the period from 1739 to 1803, which saw the collapse of the Mughal imperial system, rise of the Maratha…
First edition cover, UK