William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple is the author of The White Mughals, which won the Wolfson Prize for History, and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize. His new book, Nine Lives, will be published in the fall. (February 2009)

From the Review

February 12, 2009: Pakistan in Peril

Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

October 23, 2008: The Egyptian Connection

The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe by Michelle P. Brown

Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition by Éamonn Ó Carragáin

Word and Image: An Introduction to Early Medieval Art by William J. Diebold

June 26, 2008: India: The Place of Sex

Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India catalog of the 2007 exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, edited by Vidya Dehejia

The Book of Love: The Story of the Kamasutra by James McConnachie

Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts by David Gordon White

Kamasutra: A New, Complete English Translation of the Sanskrit Text by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar

May 1, 2008: Kashmir: The Scarred and the Beautiful

The Arts of Kashmir

April 3, 2008: A New Deal in Pakistan

November 22, 2007: The Most Magnificent Muslims

Goa and the Great Mughal edited by Jorge Flores and Nuno Vassallo e Silva

Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World by Ruby Lal

The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra by Ebba Koch, with drawings byRichard André Barraud

August 16, 2007: 'The Scandal of Empire' (letter)

July 19, 2007: The Venetian Treasure Hunt

Venice and the Islamic World,828–1797 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Stefano Carboni

July 19, 2007: The Question of Empire (letter)

April 26, 2007: Plain Tales from British India

The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain by Nicholas B. Dirks

The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour

February 23, 2006: The Case for India

The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen

December 1, 2005: Inside the Madrasas

Islamic Education and Conflict: Understanding the Madrassahs of Pakistan by Saleem H. Ali

Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah by Olivier Roy

Understanding Terror Networks by Marc Sageman

The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel, translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh

Bastions of the Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education in India by Yoginder Sikand

Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality and Modernity by Faisal Devji

April 7, 2005: India: The War Over History

Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India by James W. Laine

Ganesha: Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings by Paul Courtright

Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History by Sumit Sarkar

Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 by Romila Thapar

The Myth of the Holy Cow by Dwijendra Narayan Jha

History in the New NCERT Textbooks: A Report and Index of Errors by Irfan Habib, Suvira Jaiswal, and Aditya Mukherjee

Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia edited by David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence

A History of India, Volume 2 by Percival Spear

November 4, 2004: The Truth About Muslims

The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation by Richard Fletcher

From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East by Bernard Lewis

Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery by Nabil Matar

Islam in Britain, 1558–1685 by Nabil Matar

In the Lands of the Christians: Arab Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century edited and translated by Nabil Matar

February 12, 2004: 'Murder in Karachi': An Exchange

December 4, 2003: Murder in Karachi

A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl by Mariane Pearl, with Sarah Crichton

Who Killed Daniel Pearl? by Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated from the French by James X. Mitchell

September 25, 2003: Disappearing Christians

The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace by Charles M. Sennott