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William Dalrymple was born on the 20th of March 1965 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the youngest of four sons in a family that bridged the gap between ancient Scottish aristocracy and the Mughal Empire.
William Dalrymple wrote The Last Mughal, The Anarchy, and White Mughals to detail the interaction between the East India Company and the peoples of India and Afghanistan. The Last Mughal won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for History and Biography in 2006, while The Anarchy won the 2020 Arthur Ross Bronze Medal from the Council on Foreign Relations.
William Dalrymple has a bloodline connection to the Mughal Empire because a Mughal princess married a Dalrymple ancestor. This lineage made him a third cousin of Queen Camilla and a great-nephew of the writer Virginia Woolf.
William Dalrymple won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002 for his BBC series Indian Journeys. He also won the 2001 Wolfson Prize for History and the 2003 Scottish Book of the Year Prize for his book White Mughals.
William Dalrymple first went to Delhi on the 26th of January 1984 and has lived in India on and off since 1989. He spends most of the year at his Mehrauli farmhouse in the outskirts of Delhi while summers are spent in London and Edinburgh.
William Dalrymple and the journalist Anita Anand created the podcast Empire in 2022 to examine the British East India Company and British influence on India. The first series of the podcast went straight to number one in the UK Apple Podcast charts and garnered more than five million downloads in its first six months.