Nine Lives (49 page)

Aditya Malik with Hukmaram Bhopa and Motaram Gujar (ed.),
Sri Devnarayan Katha: An Oral Narrative of Mewar
, New Delhi, 2003

Joseph Charles Miller,
The Twenty-four Brothers of Lord Devnarayan: The Story and Performance of a Folk Epic of Rajasthan, India
,
unpublished PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1994

Daniel Neuman and Shubha Chaudhuri with Komal Kothari,
Bard, Ballad and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan
, Calcutta, 2006

Kavita Singh,
To Show, To see, To Tell, To Know: Patuas, Bhopas and their Audiences
,
in Jyotindra Jain,
Insights Into the Narrative Tradition in Indian Art
,
Bombay, 1998

Kavita Singh,
The God Who Looks Away: Phad Paintings of Rajasthan
,
in Harsha V. Dehejia,
Gods Beyond Temples
,
New
Delhi, 2006

John D. Smith,
The Epic of Pabuji – A Study, Transcription and Translation
, Cambridge, 1991

John D. Smith,
The Epic of Pabuji
,
New Delhi, 2005

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass,
Casting Kings: Bards and Modernity
,
Oxford, 2006

Ernst Van de Wetering,
Fighting a Tiger: Stability and Flexibility in the Style of Pabuji Pars
,
South Asian Studies
, 8, 1992

5. The Red Fairy

Alice Albinia,
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
,
London, 2008

D.H. Bhutani,
The Melody and Philosophy of Shah Latif
,
New Delhi, 1991

Motilal Jotwani,
Sufis of Sindh
,
New Delhi, 1986

Amena Khamisani (trans.),
The Risalo of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai
, Bhitshah, 2003

Shah Abdul Latif (trans. Anju Makhija and Hari Dilgir),
Seeking the Beloved
, New Delhi, 2005

Roland and Sabrina Michaud,
Derviches du Hind et du Sind
,
Paris, 1991

Peter Mayne,
Saints of Sindh
, London, 1956

Annemarie Schimmel,
Pain and Grace: A Study of Two Mystical Writers of Eighteenth Century Muslim India
,
Leiden, 1976

6. The Monk’s Tale

John F. Avedon,
In Exile from the Land of Snows
, New York, 1986

Noel Barber,
From the Land of Lost Content: The Dalai Lama’s Flight from Tibet
, London, 1969

John Ross Carter and Mahinda Palihawadana (trans. and ed.),
The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
, Oxford, 1987

Mary Craig,
Tears of Blood: A Cry for Tibet
, New York, 1999

HH Dalai Lama,
My Land, My People: Memoirs
,
New Delhi 1977

Kunga Samten Dewatshang,
Flight at the Cuckoo’s Behest: The Life and Times of a Tibetan Freedom Fighter
, New Delhi, 1977

Mikel Dunham,
Buddha’s Warriors: The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet
,
London, 2004

Melvyn C. Goldstein,
A History of Modern Tibet
,
Vol. 1, 1913–1951,
The Demise of a Lamaist State
, Berkeley, 1989

Palden Gyatso,
Fire Under Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner
, London, 1997

Heinrich Harrer,
Seven Years in Tibet
,
London, 1952

Pico Iyer,
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
, New York, 2008

Donald S. Lopez (ed.),
Buddhist Scriptures
, London, 2004

Ani Pachen with Adelaide Donnelley,
Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun
,
New York, 2002

Tsering Shakya,
The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947
,
New York, 1999

Keutsang Trulku Jampel Yeshe,
Memoirs of Keutsang Lama: Life in Tibet After the Chinese ‘Liberation’
,
New Delhi, 2001

7. The Maker of Idols

Crispin Branfoot,
Gods on the Move: Architecture and Ritual in the South Indian Temple
, London, 2007

Richard H. Davis,
Lives of Indian Images
, Princeton, 1977

Vidya Dehejia,
Art of the Imperial Cholas
, New York, 1990

Vidya Dehejia,
Patron, Artist and Temple
,
in
Royal Patrons and Great Temple Art
, Bombay, 1998

Vidya Dehejia,
Slaves of the Lord: The Path of the Tamil Saints
, Delhi, 1998

Vidya Dehejia,
The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India
,
Washington, 2002

Vidya Dehejia,
Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India
, London, 2006

Diana L. Eck,
Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India
, Columbia, 1998

Diana L. Eck,
India’s
Tirthas: ‘
Crossings
’
in Sacred Geography
,
in
History of Religions
, 20, No. 4, 1981

C.J. Fuller,
Servants of the Goddess: The Priests of a South Indian Temple
, Cambridge, 1984

C.J. Fuller,
The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India
,
Princeton, 1992

John Guy,
Indian Temple Sculpture
, London, 2007

James Heitzman,
Gifts of Power: Lordship in an Early Indian State
,
Oxford, 1977

Thomas E. Levy,
Masters of Fire: Hereditary Bronze Casters of South India
,
Bochum, 2008

James McConnachie,
The Book of Love: In Search of the Kama Sutra
, London, 2007

A.K. Ramanujan,
The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology
, Ontario, 1975

David Dean Shulman,
Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Saiva Tradition
, Princeton, 1980

Michael Wood,
The Smile of Murugan: A South Indian Journey
, London, 1995

8. The Lady Twilight

Agehananda Bharati,
The Tantric Tradition
, London, 1965

N.N. Bhattacharyya,
The Indian Mother Goddess
, Delhi, 1999

Douglas Renfrew Brooks,
The Secret of the Three Cities: An Introduction to Hindu Shakta Tantrism
,
Chicago, 1990

June McDaniel,
Making Virtuous Daughters and Wives: An Introduction to Women’s Brata Rituals in Bengali Folk Religion
,
New York, 2003

June McDaniel,
Offering Flowers
,
Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal
, Oxford, 2004

Vidya Dehejia,
Yogini Cult and Temples: A Tantric Tradition
,
New Delhi, 1986

Vidya Dehejia,
Devi: The Great Goddess
, Washington, 1999

Edward C. Dimock Jr,
The Place of the Hidden Moon: Erotic Mysticism in the Vaisnava-sahajiya Cult in Bengal
,
Chicago, 1966

Sanjukta Gupta, Dirk Jan Hoens and Teun Goudriann,
Hindu Tantrism
,
Leiden, 1979

Madhu Khanna,
Yantra: The Tantric Symbol of Cosmic Unity
, London, 1981

David Kinsley,
Hindu Goddesses – Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition
, Berkeley, 1998

David Kinsley,
Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine:
The Ten Mahavidyas
, New Delhi, 1998

Ajit Mookerjee and Madhu Khanna,
The Tantric Way: Art, Science, Ritual
,
London, 1977

Debashis Mukherjee,
Tarapith,
Calcutta, 2000

Philip Rawson,
Art of Tantra
, London, 1973

Ramprasad Sen (trans. Leonard Nathan and Clinton Seely),
Grace and Mercy in her Wild Hair
, Arizona, 1999

D.C. Sirkar,
The Sakta Pithas
, Delhi, 1973

David Gordon White,
Tantra in Practice
, Princeton, 2000

David Gordon White,
Kiss of the Yogini: ‘Tantric Sex’ in its South Asian Contexts
, Chicago, 2003

9. The Song of the Blind Minstrel

Pranab Bandyopadhyay,
Bauls of Bengal
,
Calcutta, 1989

Bhaskar Bhattacharyya,
The Path of the Mystic Lover: Baul Songs of Passion and Ecstasy
,
Rochester, 1993

Deben Bhattacharyya,
The Mirror of the Sky: Songs of the Bauls of Bengal
,
New York, 1969

Charles H Capwell,
The Esoteric Belief of the Bauls of
Bengal,
Journal of Asian Studies
, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, Feb 1974

Rajeshwari Datta,
The Religious Aspect of the Baul Songs of Bengal
,
Journal of Asian Studies
, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, May 1978

June McDaniel,
The Madness of the Saints
, Chicago, 1989

Jeanne Openshaw,
Seeking Bauls of Bengal
, Cambridge, 2004

R.M. Sarkar,
Bauls of Bengal: In Quest of a Man of the Heart
, New Delhi, 1990

Mimlu Sen,
Baulsphere: My Travels with the Wandering Bards of Bengal
,
New Delhi, 2009

William Dalrymple is a bestselling author whose books include
In Xanadu
,
City of Djinns
,
From the Holy Mountain
,
White Mughals
,
The Last Mughal
and, most recently,
Nine Lives
. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the
Sunday Times
Young British Writer of the Year Award, the French Prix d’Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Prize, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone/Crossword Award for Non-fiction and has, prior to the shortlisting of
Return of a King
, been longlisted three times for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.

In Xanadu

City of Djinns

From the Holy Mountain

The Age of Kali

White Mughals

The Last Mughal

Return of a King

The Fall of Delhi, 1857

Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize

In May, 1857, India’s flourishing capital became the centre of the largest uprising the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj’s Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat.

The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic rule, and the individuals caught up in one of the bloodiest upheavals in history.

‘Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire’
Daily Telegraph

‘Unmatched … revolutionary’
Sunday Telegraph