The Age Of Kali: Travels In India by William Dalrymple, ISBN 9780006547754

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'The Age of Kali' is the distillation of ten years' relentless travelling around the length and breadth of the subcontinent, from the fortresses of the drug barons of the North-West Frontier to the jungle lairs of the Tamil Tigers, from the decaying palaces of Hyberadad to the Keralan exorcist temple of the bloodthirsty goddess Parashakti - She Who is Seated on a Throne of five Corpses. Everywhere Dalrymple finds an ancient landscape overwhelmed by change, where the old certainties have been swept away, but where a new order has yet to fully establish itself. In some places the disintegration typical of the Age of Kali has reached almost apocalyptic proportions. In Lucknow Dalrymple finds a war being fought between rival wings of the student union, each side being armed with grenades and assault rifles, in neighbouring Bihar he finds the state has totally succumbed to a tidal wave of violence, corruption and endemic caste warfare.

Courageous, compassionate, erudite and beautifully written, laced with a thread of William Dalrymple's characteristic black humour, 'The Age of Kali' is a tour de force of intellectual curiosity, direct observation and unprejudiced enquiry.

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About the Author: William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple, FRSL (born 20 March 1965 in Scotland) is a historian and travel writer. Dalrymple was born William Hamilton-Dalrymple, the son of Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th baronet, a cousin of Virginia Woolf. He was educated at Ampleforth College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was first a history exhibitioner and then senior history scholar.

Dalrymple is married to the artist Olivia Fraser and has three children, Ibby, Sam, and Adam, and a cockatoo called Albinia. He is a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Literature.

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