City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

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With little possibility of much fulfilment in this world, they look to the next; they are forever visiting temples and mosques. The book covers an amazing spectrum though, and of course different bits of it will appeal more or less to different people. Also, the spirit of imperial fascination and the tendency to view the fall of Delhi as due to “decay” exists in these pages.

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William Dalrymple is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and is the founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).

City of Djinns by William Dalrymple: 9780142001004

Then followed the brief Indian dusk: a pale Camembert sun sinking down to the treeline; the smell of woodsmoke and dung cooking fires; the last raucous outbursts from the parakeets and the brahminy mynas; the first whirring, humming cicadas. The bungalows gave New Delhi its character: shady avenues of jamun and ashupal trees, low red-brick walls gave on to hundreds of rambling white colonial houses with their broken pediments and tall Ionic pillars. Weaving into the oncoming traffic, playing ‘chicken’ with the other taxis, Balvinder Singh is a Raja of the Road. but more important still was grammatical correctness 'In society the mirza should (always) try to guard against the shame of committing any mistake in conversation, for such incorrectness in speech is considered a great fault in a gentleman. While it was vital to be well turned out, the young gallant should beware of imitating those fops who spent their time building huge and elaborate turbans.From the bedroom I could hear him fiddling around, filling a bucket with water then splashing it over the plants on the roof terrace. The problem would be to motivate India’s impoverished and bureaucratic Archaeological Survey to take an interest in the matter. That first week, and the week following it, Balvinder drove Olivia and myself through a merry-go-round of government departments.