Scottish historian William Dalrymple on Wednesday said that ancient history and archaeology always excited me when asked what ...

For a man who writes history with the vivacity of a traveller, William Dalrymple was quite untravelled ... it was the East ...

Why? And what's the central thesis here? William Dalrymple: So I spent 20 years working on the East India Company, four books, The Anarchy, White Mughals, Return of a King, The Last Mughal.

Historian William Dalrymple Colonel James Achilles ... to Islam and had became a double agent working against the East India Company and for the Hyderabadis. Beneath the familiar story of the ...

The East India Company would take advantage of this and slowly gain control of parts of the Mughal Empire. Historian, William Dalrymple has said that the East India Company existed for the single ...