A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of the Royal Asiatic Society, Dalrymple was awarded the 2002 Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his “outstanding contribution to travel literature” and the Sykes Medal of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs in 2005 for his contribution to the understanding of contemporary Islam. He wrote and presented three television series, Stones of the Raj, Sufi Soul and Indian Journeys, the last of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002. In December 2005 his article on the madrasas of Pakistan was awarded the prize for Print Article of the Year at the 2005 FPA Media Awards.
He is married to the artist Olivia Fraser, and they have three children. They divide their time between London, Scotland and Delhi.
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Copyright © 2009 by William Dalrymple
Map and illustrations copyright © 2009 by Olivia Fraser
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Portions of this work previously appeared in slightly different form in The Guardian, The Times (London), and The New Yorker.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Cambridge University Press: Excerpt from The Epic of Pabuji by John D. Smith, copyright © 1991 by The Faculty of Oriental Studies. Reprinted by permission of Cambridge University Press. Hohm Press: Excerpt from Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair by Ramprasad Sen, copyright © 1999 by Ramprasad Sen. Reprinted by permission of Hohm Press.
Oxford University Press India: Excerpt from The Interior Landscape by A. K. Ramanujan, copyright © 1994. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press India, New Delhi. University of California Press: Excerpts from When God Is a Customer by A. K. Ramanujan, copyright © 1994 by University of California Press. Reprinted by permission of University of California Press.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dalrymple, William.
Nine lives : in search of the sacred in modern India / by William Dalrymple. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-59359-7
1. India—Religion. 2. Religious biography—India. I. Title.
BL2001.3.D35 2010
294.092′254—dc22 2010006362
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