William Dalrymple

Nació 1965

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Citas

“New Delhi was not new at all. Its broad avenues encompassed a groaning necropolis, a graveyard of dynasties.”
PrologueEn inglés
“However hard the planners tried to create new colonies of gleaming concrete, crumbling tomb towers, old mosques or ancient Islamic colleges - medresses - would intrude, appearing suddenly on roundabouts or in municipal gardens, curving the road network and obscuring the fairways of the golf course.”
PrologueEn inglés
“At first it is possible to mistake the Ozymandias-image for a displaced Egyptian Pharaoh or a lost Roman Emperor. Only on closer examination does it become clear that it is George V, the King Emperor, surrounded by his viceroys.”
FourEn inglés
“The outbreak revealed the surprising degree to which the Mughal court was still regarded across northern India not as some sort of foreign Muslim imposition – as some, especially on the Hindu right wing, look upon the Mughals today – but instead as the principal source of political legitimacy, and therefore the natural centre of resistance against British colonial rule.”
p. 439En inglés
“In the course of my travels I often came across the assumption that intense spirituality was somehow the preserve of what many call ‘the mystic east’... it’s a misconception that has always irritated me as I’ve always regarded our own indigenous British traditions of spirituality as especially rich.”
In The Long Search, BBC, 27 May 2002En inglés

Los libros de William Dalrymple en el orden en que se publicaron, de In Xanadu (1989) a Golden Road (2024).