Barbarians is the only word that comes to mind.
"In the 17th century, Isfahan was larger than London, more cosmopolitatan than Paris and richer than both. It is one of the most historic cities in the world and a rival to Venice or Istanbul in terms of layers of history."
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"In the 17th century, Isfahan was larger than London, more cosmopolitatan than Paris and richer than both. It is one of the most historic cities in the world and a rival to Venice or Istanbul in terms of layers of history."
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March 28, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Barbarians is the only word that comes to mind.
"In the 17th century, Isfahan was larger than London, more cosmopolitatan than Paris and richer than both. It is one of the most historic cities in the world and a rival to Venice or Istanbul in terms of layers of history."
x.com/SamDalrymple...
"In the 17th century, Isfahan was larger than London, more cosmopolitatan than Paris and richer than both. It is one of the most historic cities in the world and a rival to Venice or Istanbul in terms of layers of history."
x.com/SamDalrymple...
In a recent podcast, #SamDalrymple and Dinyar Patel discuss how modern nationalisms erased centuries of cosmopolitan connections across the Indian Ocean, and how South Asia’s violent history of partitions serves as a warning in an era of hypernationalism.
Listen here: scroll.in/article/1089...
Listen here: scroll.in/article/1089...
December 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
In a recent podcast, #SamDalrymple and Dinyar Patel discuss how modern nationalisms erased centuries of cosmopolitan connections across the Indian Ocean, and how South Asia’s violent history of partitions serves as a warning in an era of hypernationalism.
Listen here: scroll.in/article/1089...
Listen here: scroll.in/article/1089...
My observations on Sam Dalrymple's book, Shattered Lands and why it suffers from serious inaccuracies and omissions.
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#SamDalrymple
#IndianHistory
#IndianPartitions
#BookReview
#ShatteredLands
#SamDalrymple
#IndianHistory
#IndianPartitions
#BookReview
Shattered Lands Surprises, Though Not Pleasantly
While reading Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and The Making of Modern Asia which my aged father gave me for my birthday this year, I was thinking that this is a book for international readers since the history of India’s partitions has been told many times. But through the first chapter itself, I was surprised to learn about the “Indian Empire”, which is how the British referred to the vast swathes of territory they controlled, from Aden and southern Arabia in the West, to Burma in the East.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My observations on Sam Dalrymple's book, Shattered Lands and why it suffers from serious inaccuracies and omissions.
#ShatteredLands
#SamDalrymple
#IndianHistory
#IndianPartitions
#BookReview
#ShatteredLands
#SamDalrymple
#IndianHistory
#IndianPartitions
#BookReview