Quotes by : William Dalrymple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery.....

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