http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/william_dalrymple en http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2010/08/india-pakistan-afghanistan http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2010/08/india-pakistan-afghanistan Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:49:49 GMT William Dalrymple The Pakistani state has a long history of nurturing jihadis as a means of dominating Afghanistan and undermining India. It is proving a fatal alliance.

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/06/british-afghanistan-government http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/06/british-afghanistan-government Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:19:06 GMT William Dalrymple As Washington and London struggle to prop up a puppet government over which Hamid Karzai has no control, they risk repeating the blood-soaked 19th-century history of Britain’s imperial defeat.

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2009/12/india-hindu-shrine-faith http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2009/12/india-hindu-shrine-faith Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:06:57 GMT William Dalrymple Globalisation has been good for gods in the Indian subcontinent. As the region has remade itself, it has grown more devout, and its religions are becoming ever more entangled with politics

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2008/02/pakistan-army-musharraf http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2008/02/pakistan-army-musharraf Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT William Dalrymple Confounding all predictions, the Pakistani people have clearly demonstrated that they want to choose their own rulers and decide their own future. There is a consensus from Lahore to Karachi

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2007/12/egypt-coptic-muslim-copts http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2007/12/egypt-coptic-muslim-copts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT William Dalrymple A surprising dialogue between the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's Coptic Christians suggests a new way of working with Islamist parties.

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/07/british-marsh-india-colley http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/07/british-marsh-india-colley Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT William Dalrymple The British empire was built not simply on greed, cruelty and oppression - but on surprising exchanges and encounters. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: a Woman in World History Linda Colley Harper Press, 400pp, £25

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/middle-east/2007/04/tcf-schools-pakistan-education http://www.newstatesman.com/middle-east/2007/04/tcf-schools-pakistan-education Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT William Dalrymple With the virtual collapse of government schools, many parents have to depend on Wahhabi-funded madrasas. But a new foundation aims to provide quality, secular, subsidised education. It deserves our support

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/04/egypt-greek-papyri-parsons http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/04/egypt-greek-papyri-parsons Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT William Dalrymple City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek lives in Roman Egypt Peter Parsons Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 320pp, £25 ISBN 0297645889

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200610160035 http://www.newstatesman.com/200610160035 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT William Dalrymple East and west face each other across a divide that some call a religious war. Suicide jihadis take what they see as defensive action and innocent people are killed. But this is 1857. William Dalrymple on lessons from the Raj for the neo-cons

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200606050025 http://www.newstatesman.com/200606050025 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:00:00 GMT William Dalrymple Syria - Politically repressive, the minority Alawite rulers have encouraged a surprising religious tolerance

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