William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple (born 20 March 1965) is a Scottish historian, art historian, curator, broadcaster, critic and author.
Dalrymple’s books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Wolfson History Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński, the Arthur Ross Medal of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. He has been long-listed five times and once shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction and was a finalist for the Cundill History Prize. The BBC television documentary on his pilgrimage to the source of the river Ganges, “Shiva’s Matted Locks”, one of three episodes of his Indian Journeys series, which Dalrymple wrote and presented, won him the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002.
Books in order of publication:
In Xanadu (1989)
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (1994)
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (1997)
The Age of Kali (1998)
White Mughals (2002)
The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 (2006)
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India. London, Bloomsbury (2009)
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (2012)
The Writer’s Eye (2016), HarperCollins India.
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond (2017)
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company (2019)
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (2024)
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