Monday, October 23, 2006

The last Mughal and a clash of civilisations

New Statesman - The last Mughal and a clash of civilisations

This is fascinating, and demonstrates once more that we seem incapable of learning from history. By a melancholy coincidence, I was reading the excellent Philip Hensher novel The Mulberry Empire while the Afghan death toll was rising, and couldn't help noticing the parallels there too.

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