sarah steer

Too much, too quick, too long. First class glossary. It does not amount to a good look during the period. Is there an enemy, is there a hero/ine? Why do these vast numbers of people subject themselves to such deaths? (Where do the elephants come from?) The End if the Mughals of whom Dalrymple has written hitherto so well and sympathetically is disregarded. Was it all too much for the author too?