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@DalrympleWill

Writer, historian, Mehrauli goatherd & kabooter baz

New Delhi
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Joined November 2012
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    Sep 19
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    Mughal gilded blue glass ewer from Sir Hans Sloane collection, aquired by in 1753 On display in Gallery 34

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    Sep 29

    General view of the five rathas [each hewn from a single granite boulder], , by John , circa1825

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    Sep 28

    It's midnight @ the Delhi airport & the bookstore is bursting with books.

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    Sep 28

    : "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." -AHuxley

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    Sep 28
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    From The Holy Mountain- a fabulous book.

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    Sep 27

    This was the disastrous again. He inflated the Bombay bank bubble, then rounded up Indian debtors

    ‘The Bombay Banking Crisis’ a new article on , and in by
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    26 Sep 2016

    Man falls down from a tree by Aqa Riza, Iran

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    Sep 24

    An Englishwoman. Kangra, 1800. Christie's.

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    18 Aug 2016

    My book "Writing Self, Writing Empire," now out in India via Primus Books!

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    Sep 26

    . White Mughals. Edmund Burke said "wherever Hindu religion has been established, that country has been flourishing ".

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    Sep 26

    BL Or. 9457 Risāla-yi Ghawsiyya A treatise on , by Muḥammad Ghaws Gvāliyārī (d. 1562), sheikh of the Shaṭṭārī order, 18th cent

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    Sep 26

    "Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow." -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)

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    Sep 26

    Time & Tide :Tasveer's photo Exhibition showcasing the early works of Karan Kapoor in On till 29th Sept ,Bikaner House

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    Sep 26

    Mughal officer Abdullah Khan Firoz Jang with the head of Khan Jahan Lodi , ca. 1631 (made)

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    Jaipur Lit Fest Spreads International Wings

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    Sep 25

    Scene from Razmnama, Persian Translation of Mahabharat Last hours of Bhishma, lying on a bed of Arrow discoursing Yudhisthira

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  17. Sep 25

    Susheela Raman: ‘I always think, what would Björk do?

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  18. Sep 25

    TV's Front Row is a pulped and processed version of radio's. Why?

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    Sep 25

    Queeeen quote of the week 👑

    Jane Goodall on Trump: "In many ways his performances remind me of male chimpanzees & their dominance rituals,”
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    Sep 22

    Illustrations from BL Add 24099, a manuscript featuring the 84 asanas and 24 mudras of Hatha . 19th century, written in Braj bhasha.

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