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   City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

   by William Dalrymple
   Dalrymple’s second book was the result of a six year stay in Delhi. Here he removes the focus from his own experiences to instead attempt to uncover the various layers of both old and new Delhi....
   • Publisher: Flamingo
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   The Glass Palace

   by Amitav Ghosh
   Rajkumar is only a boy, helping out on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace in Mandalay, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and court into exile. Thus begins this...
   • Publisher: HarperCollins
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   The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters

   by William Dalrymple
   In The Age of Kali, William Dalrymple travels around the Indian subcontinent, journeying to places that few travellers ever get to see and often he goes at great personal risk. The name of the book...
   • Publisher: Flamingo
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   White Mughals

   by William Dalrymple
   William Dalrymple’s fifth book, White Mughals, does not follow his usual technique of travelling and discovering and storytelling. Rather this work is a social history, an account of the much u...
   • Publisher: Flamingo
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   Travels With Herodotus

   by Ryszard Kapuscinski
   Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket.
   
   As a novice reporter in the...
   • Publisher: Penguin
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   India after Gandhi

   by Ramachandra Guha
   “India after Gandhi” is the history of the world’s largest democracy, by Ramachandra Guha.
   
   Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and...
   • Publisher: Macmillan
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   Chasing the Monsoon

   by Alexander Frater
   Chasing the Monsoon is a modern travel-pilgrimage through India. Alexander Frater follows the progress of the annual monsoon season, from the funnelling of the weather front in countries to the s...
   • Publisher: Picador
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   Plain Tales from the Raj

   by Charles Allen
   The classic oral history of the period that culminated in the end of British rule in India. An insightful collection of reminiscences from a variety of different people and angles....
   • Publisher: Abacus
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   India In Slow Motion

   by Mark Tully
   In India in Slow Motion Mark Tully undertakes a journey that has no true beginning or end, seeking to unravel the mysteries lying at the heart of the country of his birth.
   
   Exploring subjects such...
   • Publisher: Viking
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    Elephant

    by Steve Bloom
    Top-selling South African-born photographer Steve Bloom has compiled twelve years of work into this celebration of the elephant, the largest land mammal on earth. That work saw Bloom travel from the...
    • Publisher: Thames & Hudson