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William Dalrymple
The First Mughal Emperor's Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World
William Dalrymple on the 16th-Century Memoir,
Babur Nama
By
William Dalrymple
| November 5, 2020
The Two Mughal Princes Who Stood in the Way of the British East India Company
From William Dalrymple's Cundill Prize-Nominated
The Anarchy
By
William Dalrymple
| October 21, 2019
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