"Everybody has their own India and I think it’s a nonsense construction, “a real India”. The real India might be the India of the villages and certainly there’s a lot to be said of the fact that India’s heart lies in its villages. But I live 5 miles down the road from Gurgaon with kyscrapers and software companies and backoffice projects and call-centers. And that’s a very real India too, so I think “real India” doesn’t make much sense-- anymore than the real US with apple pie and Thanksgiving and family around campfires; is that anymore real than Manhattan?"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Travel writersAcademics from ScotlandHistorians from ScotlandArt historiansNon-fiction authors from Scotland
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
In Amrita Ghosh, "Author in Focus: An Interview with Dalrymple".
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Dalrymple_(historian)
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
William Dalrymple (historian)
25 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by William Dalrymple (historian) →
Related Quotes
"It is true that the early Nehruvian textbooks were written by Romila Thapar and so on, many of whom were Marxists. So…"
"I alerted Bloomsbury to the growing online controversy over Delhi Riots 2020, as did several other Bloomsbury authors…"
"At a time when the British showed no particular enthusiasm for cleanliness, Indian women for example introduced Briti…"
"The economic figures speak for themselves. In 1600, when the East India Company was founded, Britain was generating 1…"
"Robert Clive was a vicious asset-stripper. His statue has no place on Whitehall. Honouring the man once known as Lord…"
"I am basically writing for a general audience rather than an academic audience. So, I explain stuff, I don’t assume k…"
"I am writing definitely primarily for an audience who don’t know India."
"Actually, when you have been in the country for a long time... whether it’s an Indian kid going to live in California…"
"What has gone on in Iraq and Afghanistan has many echoes with what was going in this part of the world in 18th and 19…"
"The outbreak revealed the surprising degree to which the Mughal court was still regarded across northern India not as…"