200 years of tumultuous colonial history are contained within the pages of historian William Dalrymple’s four magisterial books The Anarchy, White Mughals, Return of a King and The Last Mughal.
To celebrate a new edition of Dalrymple’s 20-year project, join us in welcoming him back to Edinburgh to explain the Mughal Empire’s replacement by the first global corporate power, the East India Company.
William Dalrymple: The Privatised Imperialists
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2022
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