William Dalrymple was the curator of “Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707–1857,” an exhibition for the Asia Society in New York in 2012. His new book, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839–42, is published this month. (June 2013)
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Visions of Indian Art
June 6, 2013
Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India, 1100–1900
by John Guy and Jorrit Britschgi
Masters of Indian Painting, 1100–1900
edited by Milo C. Beach, Eberhard Fischer, and B.N. Goswamy
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Pakistan in Peril
February 12, 2009
Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid
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The Egyptian Connection
October 23, 2008
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
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India: The Place of Sex
June 26, 2008
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
Kamasutra: A New, Complete English Translation of the Sanskrit Text
by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar
Kiss of the Yogini: “Tantric Sex” in Its South Asian Contexts
by David Gordon White
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Kashmir: The Scarred and the Beautiful
May 1, 2008
The Arts of Kashmir
Catalog by Pratapaditya Pal
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A New Deal in Pakistan
April 3, 2008
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The Most Magnificent Muslims
November 22, 2007
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
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‘The Scandal of Empire’
August 16, 2007
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The Venetian Treasure Hunt
July 19, 2007
Venice and the Islamic World,828–1797
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Stefano Carboni
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The Question of Empire
July 19, 2007
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Plain Tales from British India
April 26, 2007
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
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The Case for India
February 23, 2006
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
by Amartya Sen
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Inside the Madrasas
December 1, 2005
Islamic Education and Conflict: Understanding the Madrassahs of Pakistan by Saleem H. Ali
Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah
by Olivier Roy
The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West
by Gilles Kepel, translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh
Understanding Terror Networks
by Marc Sageman
Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality and Modernity
by Faisal Devji
Bastions of the Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education in India by Yoginder Sikand
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India: The War Over History
April 7, 2005
Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India
by James W. Laine
Ganesha: Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings
by Paul Courtright
Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300
by Romila Thapar
Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History
by Sumit Sarkar
A History of India, Volume 2
by Percival Spear
Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia
edited by David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence
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
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The Truth About Muslims
November 4, 2004
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
In the Lands of the Christians: Arab Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century
edited and translated by Nabil Matar
Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery
by Nabil Matar
Islam in Britain, 1558–1685
by Nabil Matar
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‘Murder in Karachi’: An Exchange
February 12, 2004
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Murder in Karachi
December 4, 2003
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
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Disappearing Christians
September 25, 2003
The Body and the Blood: The Middle East’s Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace
by Charles M. Sennott
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William Dalrymple on Pakistan
January 19, 2009