A completely original, informed, well-crafted and beautifully written book about Modern India.

The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu ('one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years' -- Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns ('the best travel book I have ever read' -- George Mackay Brown).

A scintillating memoir of a year spent in Delhi by one of the best young writers at work today.

A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal by the bestselling author of White Mughals

In the summer of 1986 two Cambridge history undergraduates set out on Marco Polo's famous journey across Central Asia to the city of Xanadu in Mongolia. This account traces their experiences in the war-torn Middle East and along 1500 miles of the Silk Road to their eventual destination.

The fourth book from the most acclaimed and gifted young travel writer of his generation, author of the best-selling In Xanadu, City of Djinns and From the Holy Mountain.

'Dalrymple's India is as vivid as Naipaul's' Simon Jenkins, The Times

Capturing the changing face of India's capital city, Delhi, over the years, this large format book is suitable for those with an interest in modern India or photography.

Describes a Maharajah's eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court.

Contains a collection of the writings by European travellers from England, Italy, Russia, France, Spain and Portugal as they journeyed the length and breadth of the Mughal Empire over a 200-year period. This book provides various contributions to our understanding of life there at the time.

ABRIDGED Astunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal by the bestselling author of White Mughals and read by Robert Bathurst

Bahadur Shah Zafar II was a mystic. But while Zafar's Mughal ancestors had controlled most of India, the aged Zafar was king in name only and was deprived of real political power. This book presents a portrait of the Delhi Zafar personified, the story of the last days of the Mughal capital and its destruction in the catastrophe of 1857.

In November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II. This work presents an history of nineteenth-century India.

Fanny Parks (1794-1875) spent 24 years travelling in India. This book throws an enchanting light on the Golden Age of Anglo-Indian relations, before the Indian Mutiny and the apartheid-like Raj.

A completely original, informed, well-crafted and beautifully written book about Modern India.