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William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple CBE FRAS FRSL FRGS FRSE FRHistS (born 20 March 1965) is an India-based Scottish historian and art historian, as well as a curator, broadcaster and critic. He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the world's largest writers' festival, the annual Jaipur Literature Festival .
From multi-award-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple, a four-book collection chronicling the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of the East India Company. It features: The Anarchy, White Mughals, Return of a King and The Last Mughal.
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Sep 12, 2023 · William Dalrymple is a scholar-historian based in New Delhi and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent work is the Company Quartet, a collection of four books published over nearly two decades that chronicle the late Mughal Period and the rise of the East India Company.
Jun 22, 2015 · William Dalrymple on the mutual genocide of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs in the creation of Pakistan and India, and Nisid Hajari’s book, “Midnight’s Furies.”
William Dalrymple is a British historian and writer based in Delhi. Born in Scotland in 1965, Dalrymple was educated at Ampleforth and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was first History Exhibitioner then Senior History Scholar.
Apr 11, 2024 · Historian William Dalrymple argues that India's influence spread far and wide before the Silk Road. He calls this zone of influence the "Indosphere" where Indian culture, art, and science traveled from Afghanistan to Japan.
William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world.
In his most ambitious and riveting book to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
