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Wolpert arrived in Bombay on the 12th of February, 1948, as a merchant marine engineer. Mahatma Gandhi had been assassinated two weeks earlier, and the grief he witnessed in the city was so overwhelming that he abandoned his engineering career and turned to Indian history.
The Watumull Prize was a biennial award given by the American Historical Association recognizing the best book on Indian history originally published in the United States. Wolpert's first book, Tilak and Gokhale, was one of two books selected for the prize in 1962. The prize has since been discontinued.
Critics identified factual inaccuracies, including describing the Jallianwala Bagh gathering as a spring harvest celebration, placing the British Viceroy in Calcutta in 1925 when the capital had moved to Delhi in 1911, and calling Ahmedabad the capital of Gujarat in 1887 when that state did not exist until the 1950s. Some also felt the book focused on Gandhi the saint while underplaying the political strategist.
Nine Hours to Rama, published in 1962, explored the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. It was adapted into a feature film in 1963.
Wolpert joined UCLA's history department as an instructor in 1959 and remained until 2002, a total of forty-three years. He was made a full professor in 1967 and department chair in 1968, and later held emeritus status.