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William Dalrymple, born on March 20, 1965, in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a Scottish historian, art historian, curator, broadcaster, critic, and author. He was educated at Ampleforth College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a history exhibitioner and then a senior history scholar. His early career was marked by immersive travel and research. Dalrymple moved to Delhi in 1989 and lived there for five years, during which he researched his second book, ‘City of Djinns.’ This immersive approach to his subjects has been a hallmark of his career, contributing to his reputation as a detailed and engaging historical writer.
Dalrymple’s work focuses on the East India Company in 18th-century South Asia and Afghanistan, Eastern Christianity, the Muslim world, Hindu and Buddhist art, and late Mughal and Company school painting. His bibliography includes ten books, each winning literary awards. Notably, ‘White Mughals’ (2002) received the Wolfson Prize for History, and ‘The Last Mughal’ (2006) was awarded the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. He has also ventured into television and radio, writing and presenting series such as ‘Stones of the Raj’ (1997) and ‘Indian Journeys’ (2002), which earned him the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. In 2022, he co-created the podcast ‘Empire,’ which quickly topped the UK Apple Podcast charts.
His career includes significant academic appointments, such as a Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University in 2012 and the OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer at Brown University in 2015. He was awarded the President’s Medal of the British Academy in 2018 for his contributions to humanities and social sciences. In 2023, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature and the arts. Dalrymple is also a co-founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, the world’s largest writers’ festival, demonstrating his commitment to promoting literary and historical discourse globally.
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