“The piece you ran is blatantly racist”
William Dalrymple takes exception to a piece we ran arguing that India’s life of letters was still beholden to the British. 15 January 2011BY: William Dalrymple
View ArticleThe First Predator
It was not the British government that seized India, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office in London 13 March 2015BY: William Dalrymple
View ArticleThe Familiar Faces of Ajanta
The eternity of the sensuous and the spiritual in the finest picture gallery of a civilisation 25 September 2015BY: William Dalrymple
View ArticleMahendra’s Magic
The Mahabalipuram rock reliefs and sculptures are extraordinary creations by the third monarch of the Pallava dynasty, and in these masterpieces merge the sensuous and the satirical, the human and the...
View ArticleSultan of the Sublime
The Deccani art patronised by the religious reconciler Ibrahim Adil Shah II of the Bijapur kingdom is an unparalleled alchemy of dream and fantasy 9 October 2015BY: William Dalrymple
View ArticleDelight of the Eye
Nainsukh broke free from the formality of Indian court art to explore the quirks of human reality, stripping courtly conventions down to create miniatures full of living and breathing individuals 16...
View ArticleThe Last Mughal Renaissance
The works produced by the last of the Mughal painters in Delhi for British patrons are an extraordinary fusion of English and Indian artistic sensibilities 23 October 2015BY: William Dalrymple
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