About the Book: The Historians Eye
While researching for his forthcoming book, The Anarchy, which tells the story
of how a militarized multinational destroyed and replaced the mighty and
supremely elegant empire of the Great Mughals, William Dalrymple visited all the
places in the Indian subcontinent where this history took place-the battlefields
and ruins, the mosques, Sufi shrines and temples, the paradise gardens and
pleasure grounds, the barrack blocks and townhouses, the crumbling Mughal
havelis and the palaces and forts. This collection is a record of that journey.
Shot on his Samsung Edge, the striking black-and-white images in this collection
convey the immediacy and lack of pretension that