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City of Djinns: A Year In Delhi - William Dalrymple
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Published by Flamingo, 1994, softcover, illustrated, index, 350 pages, condition: as new.

 Could you show me a djinn? I asked. Certainly, replied the Sufi. But you would run away.


From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted The Return of a King, this is William Dalrymples captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns. Lodging with the beady-eyed Mrs Puri and encountering an extraordinary array of characters from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj William Dalrymple comes to know the bewildering city intimately. He pursues Delhis interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem.

City of Djinns is an astonishing and sensitive portrait of a city, and confirms William Dalrymple as one of the most compelling explorers of Indias past and present.

Delhi is lucky to have William Dalrymple as a chronicler not many cities get such exemplary treatment as this. I think I even preferred it to Peter Ackroyd's , just because Ackroyd presents himself as an expert dispensing knowledge, whereas Dalrymple is pure ingénu: curious, open-minded, he allows us to accompany him on his own journey of exploration and discovery which dovetails with the social and historical narratives he uncovers.

For Dalrymple, Delhi is a city of accumulated losses, haunted by its innumerable fallen rulers, the locus of empires that have been lost and though not actively remembered not quite forgotten either. Two dates recur with especial frequency. 1857, when the Mughal Empire finally fell, and 1947, when the British Indian Empire was dissolved and the territory partitioned into India and Pakistan.

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