William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. His latest book is The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Sessions
01. Inaugural Address
H.E. Vikram Doraiswami, Dame Carol Black, Namita Gokhale, William Dalrymple and Sanjoy K. Roy
04. Stealing from the Saracens: The Forgotten Artists of Europe
Diana Darke in conversation with William Dalrymple
Presented by Aga Khan Foundation
18. Echoes of Ancient India
Sushma Jansari and Sureshkumar Muthukumaran in conversation with William Dalrymple
26. Making Empire
Jane Ohlmeyer, William Dalrymple and Anita Anand in conversation
34. The Golden Road
William Dalrymple introduced by Sureshkumar Muthukumaran
Presented by Aga Khan Foundation
