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Dalrymple

American  
[dal-rim-puhl, dal-rim-] / dælˈrɪm pəl, ˈdæl rɪm- /

noun

  1. Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.


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Dr. Daniels, 76, is a retired British psychiatrist who has written more than two dozen books—most of them under the nom de plume Theodore Dalrymple.

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As Sam Dalrymple writes in “Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia,” the fact that Radcliffe “knew nothing of India was considered evidence of his potential as an unbiased mediator.”

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“Shattered Lands” is Mr. Dalrymple’s first book.

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Sam Dalrymple has real Raj pedigree, his paternal grandfather being Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, the aide-de-camp to Frank Messervy, the first commander in chief of the army of independent Pakistan.

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Mr. Dalrymple cites the example of U Ottama, also called Mahatma Ottama— “a short Buddhist monk with large ears and a scar on his forehead”—who yearned for Burmese union with India.

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