William Dalrymple Książki

Wiek władzy, chciwości i okrucieństwa przedstawia historię panowania Kompanii Wschodnioindyjskiej, która stała się pierwszą międzynarodową korporacją, kontrolującą potężne Imperium Mogołów. To opowieść o tym, jak to imperium, mające ogromne zasoby i dominujące w światowym handlu, rozpadło się pod wpływem korporacji zarządzanej przez udziałowców, którzy nigdy nie byli w Indiach. Autor, korzystając z wcześniej niedostępnych źródeł, ukazuje fascynujący obraz powstania Kompanii, która przetarła szlak dla współczesnych gigantów gospodarczych. Działając z bezwzględną konsekwencją, Kompania odcisnęła okrutne piętno na losach milionów ludzi. Książka nie tylko dostarcza szczegółowej narracji, ale także skłania do refleksji nad rolą korporacji w przeszłości i współczesności oraz ich wpływem na rzeczywistość. To lektura, która zmusza do zadawania istotnych pytań o etykę i odpowiedzialność globalnych organizacji. Warto ją przeczytać, aby lepiej zrozumieć mechanizmy rządzące światem.

Pierwsza pełna historia najsłynniejszego brylantu świata, Koh-i-Noora, czyli G�ry światła.29 marca 1849 roku dziesięcioletni maharadża Pendżabu został wprowadzony do sali tronowej Pałacu Luster we wspaniałym forcie Lahaur. Tam w czasie publicznej ceremonii, wystraszony, ale zachowujący godność chłopiec, formalnie przekazał prawdziwe skarby najbogatszego państwa Indii prywatnej korporacji ? Kompanii Wschodnioindyjskiej. Został r�wnież zmuszony do podarowania brytyjskiej monarchini, kr�lowej Wiktorii, prawdopodobnie najcenniejszego przedmiotu na subkontynencie: słynnego brylantu o nazwie Koh- i-Noor.Na historię klejnotu, będącego przede wszystkim symbolem władzy, składały się w tamtym czasie gł�wnie plotki z bazar�w Delhi, niemniej uznawane za obowiązującą wersję. Dopiero teraz kamień został odmitologizowany. W rezultacie świat może nareszcie poznać jego prawdziwe dzieje, pełne chciwości, zbrodni, tortur i morderstw, kolonializmu i grabieży ? autorom udało się bowiem dotrzeć do wielu, nieznanych wcześniej źr�deł, znajdujących się między innymi w południowej i środkowej Azji.Historia kończy się na opisie budzącego kontrowersje obecnego miejsca przechowywania drogocennego kamienia: londyńskiej Tower, gdzie w muzeum klejnot�w kr�lewskich zdobi koronę kr�lowej matki.

India explores the lives of everyday people in extraordinary settings through the lens of Steve McCurry, one of the most admired photographers working today. As featured on cnn.com. This new portfolio of emotive and beautiful photographs from India features 150 previously unpublished images taken across the Indian subcontinent, along with iconic photographs that are famous worldwide. Reproduced in a large format with captions, and an introductory essay, this book features a range of color pictures illustrating this most colorful of countries, capturing the lives of everyday people in extraordinary settings: from the Ganesh festival on Chowpatty beach in Mumbai to the Kolkata railway station before dawn to the flower markets of Kashmir and the streets of Old Delhi. Following Phaidon's 2013 bestseller Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs, McCurry's India is a new selection of the photographer's beautiful and powerful images of India, a country he has photographed many times over the last thirty years. Other Phaidon titles by Steve McCurry, include Steve McCurry, The Iconic Photographs, Steve McCurry, Unguarded Moment and Steve McCurry: South Southeast.

A historical account of the last Mughal emperor, his court, and the 1857 uprising in Delhi.

In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat and utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War, told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides and using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict. Prize-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful and important parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris, for our times.

In the spring of 587 A.D., 2 men set out from the great desert monastery of St Theodosius, near Bethlehem. It was the start of an extraordinary journey across the entire Byzantine world, and William Dalrymple has followed in their footsteps

India's rich cultural heritage played a pivotal role in shaping civilizations long before modern influences took hold. A millennium ago, its contributions in religion, art, technology, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, language, and literature spread widely, reaching regions from Afghanistan to Japan. This book explores the profound impact of India's cultural exports, revealing a history of influence that challenges the narrative of a solely passive cultural recipient.

The narrative explores the complex and often overlooked dynamics of the East India Company's rise and its impact on the Mughal Empire, which was once a significant global economic power. Through meticulous research and engaging storytelling, Dalrymple reveals the darker aspects of colonialism, highlighting the transition from a thriving empire to corporate dominance. This four-book collection provides a comprehensive view of over two centuries of colonial history, marked by political intrigue and resistance, making it an essential read for history enthusiasts.

'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly, ' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns. Lodging with the beady-eyed Mrs Puri and encountering an extraordinary array of characters - from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj - William Dalrymple comes to know the bewildering city intimately. He pursues Delhi's interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem. 'City of Djinns' is an astonishing and sensitive portrait of a city, and confirms William Dalrymple as one of the most compelling explorers of India's past and present.

From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerizing book that explores how traditional religions are observed in today’s India, revealing ways of life that we might otherwise never have known. A middle-class woman from Calcutta finds unexpected fulfillment living as a Tantric in an isolated, skull-filled cremation ground . . . A prison warder from Kerala is worshipped as an incarnate deity for two months of every year . . . A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death . . . The twenty-third in a centuries-old line of idol makers struggles to reconcile with his son’s wish to study computer engineering . . . An illiterate goatherd keeps alive in his memory an ancient 200,000-stanza sacred epic . . . A temple prostitute, who resisted her own initiation into sex work, pushes her daughters into the trade she nonetheless regards as a sacred calling. William Dalrymple tells these stories, among others, with expansive insight and a spellbinding evocation of remarkable circumstance, giving us a dazzling travelogue of both place and spirit

In Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India itself, William Dalrymple searches for evidence of Kali Yug, the Hindu "age of darkness." Venturing to places rarely visited by foreigners, he travels deep into guerilla territory with the Tamil Tigers. Visits Benazir Bhutto and meets the drug lords of the North West Frontier. He inveils a region where the strengths and problems of both modernity and tradition remain to be reconciled. The result is this engrossing, eagle-eyed and utterly enthralling collection."--Back cover.

This compelling history of Britain's rule over India relates the true story of James Kirkpatrick, who converted to Islam and spied on the East India Company in the midst of an affair with the great-niece of the region's prime minister. Photos.

One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of 'Return of a King', which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan's stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villages and cities full of unexpected hospitality and wildly improbable escapades, to Coleridge's Xanadu itself. At once funny and knowledgeable, In Xanadu is in the finest tradition of British travel writing. Told with an exhilarating blend of eloquence, wit, poetry and delight, it is already established as a classic of its kind.

Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her delightful journal traces her journey from prim memsahib, married to a minor civil servant of the Raj, to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate in her appreciation of Indian culture. Fanny is fascinated by everything, from the trial of the thugs and the efficacy of opium on headaches to the adorning of a Hindu bride. To read her is to get as close as one can to a true picture of early colonial India - the sacred and the profane, the violent and the beautiful, the straight-laced sahibs and the more eccentric "White Mughals" who fell in love with India and did their best, like Fanny, to build bridges across cultures.

In the spirit of James Joyce's "Dubliners," Mueenuddin's collection of linked stories illuminates a place and a people through an examination of the entwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in Lahore, Pakistan.

A useful companion for those travelling to Syria, this work is part of a series that is a collection of writing, aiming to invest the traveller with a cultural and historical background to Syria.

(Book Jacket Jacketed)Thirty years’ worth of Evelyn Waugh’s inimitable travel writings have been gathered together for the first time in one volume.Waugh’s accounts of his travels–spanning the years from 1929 to 1958–describe journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his travels informed his fiction, his novelist’s sensibility is apparent in each of these pieces. Waugh pioneered the genre of modern travel writing in which the comic predicament of the traveler is as central as the world he encounters. He wrote with as sharp an eye for folly as for foliage, and a delight in the absurd, not least where his own comfort and dignity are concerned.From his fresh take on the well-traveled and hence already “fully labeled” Mediterranean region in Labels, to a close-up view of Haile Selassie’s coronation in Remote People, from a comically miserable stint in British Guiana.

Spirituality is the shining thread that runs through every motif of the rich and complex tapestry that is India. It is not only worship in temple, mosque or church, in gurudwara or agiary, that defines the faith of Indians - it is their ordinary, everyday kind of spirituality that serves as an axis, balancing the temporal with the eternal. "The Sacred India Book" seizes and distils this ephemeral quality often described as 'the Spirit of India'. Amit Pasricha seeks out meditative moments and momentous ones, exalted moments and exultant ones - the eternal quality of a weathered cross overlooking a windswept beach, the ecstatically outstretched hands of Holi celebrants at Vrindavan, the quiet faith of a women as she ties a piece of coloured thread on the latticed screen of a shrine. His photographs lay before the viewer the colourful, intricate mosaic of Indian religion, spirituality, ritual and images of religious art such as the living, writhing energy of unfinished idols in a potter's shed in Kolkata; the making of religious music a Buddhists chant from atop icy mountains; and, the richness of religious traditions in the pristine precision of a Parsi ritual. Amit Pasricha's masterful use of the panoramic format - in unintentional but fitting consonance with the wide, encompassing nature of the sacred in India - and Bharati Motwani's insightful text make "The Sacred India Book" a limited edition to be preserved and treasured.

Město džinů se odehrává se během jednoho roku, který autor strávil v Dillí. Bizarní exotické město se před námi postupně odhaluje, takže jsme brzy vtaženi do jeho křivolakých uliček, na hlučné bazary, do mešit, svatyní a hrobek. Vůbec si neuvědomujeme, že zatímco nás vypravěč baví neuvěřitelnými historkami o kohoutích zápasech, praštěných taxikářích a svatých mužích, bezděky do sebe nasáváme také množství vědomostí. Kromě toho, že se nenásilně seznámíme s celou pohnutou historií Indie, od násilného rozdělení, přes britskou nadvládu a sikhská povstání až do současnosti, potkáme spolu s autorem také nepřeberné množství figurek i osobností, tak živých, že jen těžko uvěříme, že jsme je neviděli na vlastní oči. Chovatelé holubů, súfističtí mystikové, muslimští léčitelé, hudebníci, tančící derviši, kaligrafové, filozofové, potrhlý indický domácí… to jsou jen někteří z mnoha. Pokud jste si až dosud vážně mysleli, že poučování musí být nudné, tahle kniha vás definitivně vyvede z omylu.