The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor,...

„The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World“ von William Dalrymple ist ein faszinierendes Werk, das sich mit dem Einfluss und der Bedeutung des alten Indiens auf die Weltgeschichte beschäftigt. Dalrymple untersucht die...

"White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India" von William Dalrymple erzählt die faszinierende Geschichte der Beziehung zwischen James Achilles Kirkpatrick, einem britischen Residenten am Hof des Nizam von Hyderabad, und...

"Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company" von William Dalrymple ist ein faszinierendes Buch, das sich mit der einzigartigen Kunstform der indischen Malerei während der Zeit der Ostindien-Kompanie im späten 18. und...

"The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" von William Dalrymple ist ein faszinierendes Werk, das die bedeutende Rolle Indiens in der Weltgeschichte beleuchtet. Dalrymple untersucht, wie das antike Indien durch seine...

Alive with the mayhem of the present and sparkling with William Dalrymple's irrepressible wit, 'City of Djinns' is a fascinating portrait of a city. Watched over and protected by the mischievous, invisible djinns, Delhi has, through...

One of today's most highly acclaimed young travel writers retraces the steps of two monks who undertook an epic journey, across the entire Byzantine world, in the year 587 AD. An elegy to the slowly dying doctrine of Eastern Christianity...

In Xanadu von Dalrymple, William

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As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked for the Mughals. Published to...