DHF Founder Helen Philon to be in conversation with historians William Dalrymple and George Michell

Mysore/Mysuru: As part of their second season of webinars on ‘Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture,’ Deccan Heritage Foundation (DHF), the Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge and the His Highness Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar Foundation have jointly organised ‘Discovering the Deccan – From Malabar to Coromandel: In Conversation with William Dalrymple and George Michell’ at 5.30 pm on May 28. 

The Founder-Trustee of DHF, Helen Philon, engages in a conversation with author and historian, William Dalrymple and architectural historian and DHF Trustee, George Michell, on what it is that entices them to the Deccan region, about why it continues to keep their curiosities piqued and has led them to dedicate decades long careers on studying it. 

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William Dalrymple is a Scottish travel writer and historian, whose work centres chiefly on the Indian subcontinent. His first book in 1990s, ‘In Xanadu: A Quest’, was an account of his journey from Jerusalem to Mongolia, travelling in the footsteps of Marco Polo. Dalrymple followed this up in 1994 with a biography of Delhi, where he had been living for the past five years, called ‘City of Djinns,’ before producing  his most-acclaimed piece of travel writing, ‘From the Holy Mountain.’ 

Since 1999, he has concentrated on detailed histories of the Indian subcontinent and, in particular, the Mughal empire. ‘White Mughals’ was published in 2003, with ‘The Last Mughal’ following three years later. His latest book is ‘The Anarchy,’ a history of the East India Company. 

George Michell obtained his Ph.D from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, for his dissertation on Early Chalukya temple architecture. During the 1980s and 1990s, he and Dr. John M. Fritz co-directed an extensive survey of Hampi-Vijayanagara. 

To register for the discussion, log on to : https://www.deccanheritagefoundation.uk/events/webinars/registration; For more details, visit: www.deccanheritagefoundation.uk