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William Dalrymple

: British journalist and writer, William Dalrymple is an expert on the Indian sub-continent. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Asiatic Society. He is the author of White Mughals.

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“An essay in imperial villain-making”

by William Dalrymple

6 June 2005

By the end of the 90s, the hardliners who wanted a regime change in the East had a powerful ally in the State. The new president was conservative, an aggressive anti-French who wanted to turn his country into a world power with no rival at all. He thought he had to fight the Muslim regimes (...)