• India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.

    William Dalrymple: India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.
    William Dalrymple (2004). “White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India”, p.7, Penguin