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William Dalrymple

Jason Monserrate Sumantra Club, IMNU Presents an introduction to. William Dalrymple. Background. Born in Scotland on March 20, 1965 Grew up on the shores of the Firth of Forth Spent his teenage pursuing his interest in archaeology

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William Dalrymple

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  1. Jason Monserrate Sumantra Club, IMNU Presents an introduction to William Dalrymple

  2. Background • Born in Scotland on March 20, 1965 • Grew up on the shores of the Firth of Forth • Spent his teenage pursuing his interest in archaeology • Intended to spent his adolescence in Iraq and Swaziland. Ended up going to India. • Dad was in the army and neither of his parents went to university • Virginia Woolf is his aunt

  3. And some more… • His interests include India, Pakistan, the Middle East, Mughal rule, the Muslim world and early Eastern Christianity • the founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival • spends most of the year in New Delhi, but summers in London and Edinburgh • His new book, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India will be published by Bloomsbury in October 2009 • William is married to the artist Olivia Fraser, and they have three children.

  4. Xanadu • Written at the age of 22 • Left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. • An account of a quest which took him and his companions across the width of Asia – Jerusalem to Mongolia • Won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award

  5. City of Djinns • Travelogue on Delhi written at the age of 28 • Moved to Delhi for 6 years to research this book • examines the traumatic events of the Partition of India, the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots which occurs as a result of the assassination of Indira Gandhi among other events • Won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award • The book has now been made into a play by RahulDasinnurPulkeshi of Delhi-based Dreamtheatre

  6. From The Holy Mountain • Trace the ties of Eastern Orthodox Christian congregations scattered in the Middle East to their ancient origins • Deals with the complex relationship of Islam and Christianity in the Middle East • Was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award for 1997

  7. The Age of Kali • The book is a collection of essays collected through almost a decade of travel around the Indian subcontinent • Benazir Bhutto to Imran Khan to Shobha De to Baba Sehgal • Rajasthan to Bihar to Sri Lanka to Reunion • Won the French Prix D’Astrolabe in 2005

  8. White Mughals • a work of social history about the warm relations that existed between the British and some Indians in the 18th and early 19th century, when one in three British men in India was married to an Indian woman • The love story of a British dignitary, the East India Company resident of Hyderabad, Captain James Achilles Kirkpatrick, that saw him convert to Islam and marry Khair-un-Nissa, a Hyderabadi noblewoman of royal Persian descent • won the Wolfson Prize for History 2003 as well as the Scottish Book of the Year Prize

  9. The Last Mughal • won praise for its use of "The Mutiny Papers", which included previously ignored Indian accounts of the events of 1857. He worked on these documents in association with the Urdu scholar Mahmood Farooqui • Won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for History and Biography • Documents the fall of the Mughal Dynasty

  10. Thank you!

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