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William Dalrymple: 'Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India'

20 Sep 2009

Speakers: William Dalrymple

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William Dalrymple discusses his book Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred Modern India.

He states that he wanted to avoid the misrepresentation of Indian religion so common in the writing of western authors. He achieves this by allowing the Indian people to speak for themselves. Each of the nine lives in contemporary India, which Dalrymple writes about, represents a different religious vocation and search for the spiritual.

Dalrymple discusses the faiths to which he felt particularly drawn.

This video was kindly provided by Bloomsbury

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