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. 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. His latest book is The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. He is a co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

The Last Mughal:

The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857

City of Djinns:

A Year in Delhi

The Anarchy:

The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

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