Books | Plunderers exposed
by Ashok V. Desai
Sep 13, 2019
2 minutes
It is difficult to describe William Dalrymple. He does not write fiction, but his books are as readable as fiction. He is not a historian as historians understand their craft: he does not plumb obscure sources to modify marginally the picture of the past that historians have built up. But most of his books are about the past. Indologists would not recognise him as one of their tribe; among
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