Volume 53, Number 3 · February 23, 2006
The Case for India
By William Dalrymple
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
by Amartya Sen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 409 pp., $26.00
Fatehpur Sikri is the now ruined Mu-ghal capital built by the emperor Akbar outside Agra at the end of the sixteenth century. In the center of the palace that lies at the center of the city stands the diwan-i-khas, or Hall of Private Audience. Standing alone at the center of that room is a single, elaborately carved pillar.
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