On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Indrajit Gupta <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Dalrymple as historian? > > Well, perhaps, in the sense that Barbara Tuchman was an historian, or Alan > Bullock was an historian. > > There was a dividing line between historians and writers of popular > historical pieces. Admittedly it is disappearing very fast now. Even so, > Dalrymple's work is not to be considered as history. > So noted. :) But though Keay and Dalrymple are on opposite sides of the line, they are not too far from each other as readability and popular appeal go. -- Aadisht Khanna Address for mailing lists: [email protected] Personal address: [email protected]
