The Economist (US), September 11th, 1993
FOR a modern travel writer, William Dalrymple is a wild experimentalist. He writes not about voyages of self-discovery, but about foreign countries. His "City of Djinns" is about the past and present of Delhi; and, unlike much modern travel-writing, it is informative, learned and funny.*
The book is written as archaeology: beginning with the present, and delving down into the past. This allows Mr Dalrymple to explain at the outset the city's principal oddness: its present turns its back on the city's past.
Because India was run by the Moghuls for three centuries until the British arrived, ...
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