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by: William Dalrymple See Larger Image Used Price: $9.37 Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 954.56 EAN: 9780002157254 ISBN: 000215725X Label: Harpercollins Manufacturer: Harpercollins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 1994-12 Publisher: Harpercollins Sales Rank: 410225 Studio: Harpercollins Related Items: The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Vintage) White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India Travelers' Tales India: True Stories (Travelers' Tales Guides) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: William Dalrymple and his wife Olivia spent a year living in Delhi. Through stories of their troubles with bureaucracy and the eccentricity of their landlord, this book offers an insight into a fascinating city. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Read while visiting India Dalrymple writes wonderfully. I read this while visiting Delhi, and it made me want to find all those places he described - many of which are off the beaten track. Dalrymple, a true historian, uncovers a whole other India beneath what regular tourists see. Both his discoveries as well as the reflections on his own life woven in are fascinating. I highly recommend this book, and I even more so recommend reading it while travelling in India, as it will fully allow you to appreciate "City of Djinns". Rating: - Excellent book to get a glimpse of Delhi's history I loved reading all the three books by this author - The last Mughal, The White Mughal and City of Djinns. Unlike the other two, City of Djinns , is a little fast paced, more readable and is not as much detailed. If you have lived in Delhi and wondered about its history or a tourist heading for Delhi, you will look at things differently if you have read this book. The book is so readable that I would have liked more details especially Mughal and pre-Mughal history. Overall this is a great book. Rating: - Fantastic travel writing The first thing that is incredibly interesting about this book is the way it is approached. To call it a travel book, I feel, is diminishing the many other aspects & experiences this book is about. This book is kind of a diary of Dalrymple & wife's year in Delhi. And it is also a book of history scattered behind the sights, the people, & the culture. Dalrymple narrates compellingly, candidly, without biases & with plentiful humour. Stories abound - of the destitute but ... Read More Rating: - Thank you for the Sufi and Muslim I lived in Delhi for just under a year in the eighties, and if I had had this book then, it would have been a completely different experience for me. I walked by so much history in puraani delhi, and understood little of its significance. When I return to Delhi, this book will light my way into Mughal, British and Sufi Delhi. I agree with another reviewer that Dalrymple says relatively little about Hindu Delhi, but I think Delhi is one of the most historically cosmopolitan of cities in ... Read More Rating: - A great book for insight on multi-layered cultures of Delhi I was born and brought up in Delhi, and lived there for 21 years of my life, after which I emigrated to the United States. This book made me feel that how oblivious many of us 'locals' are, of the many riches and insights that my home city has to offer. William Dalrymple peels the multilayered culture of the historical city of Delhi - seven times the capital of empires - ruined and rebuilt again. He spans from the Punjabi immigrants that've filled the newer parts of economically booming ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: India - Asia - History - Subjects - Books - General AAS Asia - History - Subjects - Books - South Asia Asia - History - Subjects - Books - General AAS History - Subjects - Books - General AAS Anthropology - Social Sciences - Nonfiction - Subjects - Books - Cultural