In this memoir, Dalrymple records with sympathy and understanding those people who crossed his path in the year he spent in Delhi, but just as importantly he gives a valuable exposé of India's history and culture and shows how 'the ghosts of even the most distant past still walk Delhi in the twentieth century'. Jan Morris is right when she says he is more a pilgrim than an observer, and we can benefit enormously from both.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 37 December 2006 ) |
