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{{short description|British historian and writer (born 1965)}}
{{Other people|William Dalrymple}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name             = William Dalrymple
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRAS|FRSL|FRGS|FRSE|FRHistS|size=100%}}
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| caption          = Dalrymple in 2025
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1965|3|20|df=y}}
| education        = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| birth_place      = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/william-dalrymplewe-think-everyone-loves-us-india-national-myth/|title=William Dalrymple: We think everyone loves us in India, but it's a national myth of the first order |website=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=29 August 2020 }}</ref>
| occupation       = Historian, writer & broadcaster
| period           = 1989–present
| subject          = The [[East India Company]] in 18th century South Asia and Afghanistan, Eastern Christianity and the Muslim world; Hindu and Buddhist art; late Mughal and [[Company style|Company school]] painting
| spouse           = [[Olivia Fraser (artist)|Olivia Fraser]]
| website          = {{Official URL}}
| children         = 3, including [[Sam Dalrymple (historian)|Sam Dalrymple]]
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}}
'''William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple''' (born 20 March 1965) is a Scottish historian, [[art historian]], curator, broadcaster, critic and author.<ref>{{cite web
|url =https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/my-job-is-set-up-for-lockdown-william-dalrymple/story-e2Qb5qCGipLZm0cFVyPJrI.html|title=My job is set up for lockdown: William Dalrymple|first=Navneet|last=Vyasan|website=Hindustan Times|date=25 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url = https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/writer-in-residence-william-dalyrimple-opens-the-doors-to-his-delhi-farmhouse/|title=Writer in residence: William Dalrymple opens the doors to his Delhi farmhouse|website=Architectural Digest|first=Divya|last=Mishra|date=21 May 2016}}</ref>

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 five times long-listed 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=William Dalrymple |url=http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109062249/http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=9 January 2007 |access-date=30 June 2007 |publisher=Penguin Books India}}</ref>

In 2012 he was appointed a Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities by [[Princeton University]].<ref>[http://humanities.princeton.edu/fellows/short-term-visiting-fellows Short-Term Visiting Fellows] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528110927/http://humanities.princeton.edu/fellows/short-term-visiting-fellows|date=28 May 2016}}, Princeton University. Retrieved 1 October 2012.</ref> In 2015 he was appointed the OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer at [[Brown University]].<ref>[https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/india/opjindal/william-dalrymple] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926033413/http://www.brown.edu/initiatives/india/opjindal/william-dalrymple|date=26 September 2015}}, Brown University. Retrieved 28 April 2015.</ref> In 2018 he was awarded the [[President's Medal (British Academy)|President's Medal]] of the [[British Academy]], the academy's highest honour in its suite of prizes and medals awarded for "outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences".<ref name="British Academy-2018">{{cite web |date=20 August 2018 |title=Award-winning journalists, prehistorians and world-leading economists honoured with prestigious British Academy prizes and medals |url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/news/journalists-prehistorians-economists-honoured-british-academy-prizes-medals |access-date=5 September 2018 |website=British Academy |archive-date=2 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702001820/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/journalists-prehistorians-economists-honoured-british-academy-prizes-medals |url-status=live }}</ref> He is also since 2021 an honorary fellow of the [[Bodleian Library]]. He was a [[visiting fellow]] at [[All Souls College, Oxford]], in 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/mr-william-dalrymple|title = Archived copy|access-date = 19 April 2024|archive-date = 19 April 2024|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240419111948/https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/mr-william-dalrymple|url-status = live}}</ref>

He was named in the 2020 ''[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]'' list of the top 50 thinkers for the [[COVID-19 pandemic|COVID-19 era]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2020 |title=The world's top 50 thinkers for the Covid-19 age |url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/content/uploads/2020/09/PWTT20.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907185002/https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/content/uploads/2020/09/PWTT20.pdf |archive-date=7 September 2020 |access-date=2020-09-08 |magazine=Prospect}}</ref> He was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[2023 Birthday Honours]] for services to literature and the arts.<ref>{{London Gazette| issue = 64082| date = 17 June 2023| page = B9| supp = y}}</ref> He is one of the co-founders and co-directors of the world's largest writers' festival, the annual [[Jaipur Literature Festival]] in India.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gopalakrishnan |first1=Amulya |date=27 January 2009 |title=The Greatest Literary Show on Earth |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-27/the-greatest-literary-show-on-earth |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213082523/http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-27/the-greatest-literary-show-on-earth/ |archive-date=13 February 2009 |access-date=3 February 2009 |newspaper=The Daily Beast}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Looking for something special? Try treasure hunting in India |url=http://www.kiwicollection.com/around_world_detail/ITEM=242/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602040759/http://www.kiwicollection.com/around_world_detail/ITEM%3D242/ |archive-date=2 June 2008 |access-date=22 April 2008 |publisher=KiwiCollection.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=30 January 2008 |title=Writes of passage |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=0640ff75-70ec-460d-8d06-a9bfc6d124aa |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020092621/http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=0640ff75-70ec-460d-8d06-a9bfc6d124aa |archive-date=20 October 2008 |access-date=23 April 2008 |work=Hindustan Times}}</ref>

==Early life==
William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple was born in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, on 20 March 1965 as the youngest son of Major [[Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th Baronet]] (1926–2018), [[Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian]] from 1987 to 2001, and Lady Anne-Louise Keppel, a daughter of [[Walter Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle]]; through this line of descent he is a third cousin of [[Queen Camilla]], both being great-great-grandchildren of [[William Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle]]. He is a great-nephew of the writer [[Virginia Woolf]].<ref>{{cite AV media | people=Cambridge Muslim College | date=15 May 2003 | title=Return of a King | medium=Lecture recording | location=Cambridge, UK | time = 1:22}}</ref> His brother [[Jock Dalrymple (cricketer)|Jock]] was a [[first-class cricket]]er. Dalrymple, the youngest of four brothers, grew up in [[North Berwick]] on the shores of the [[Firth of Forth]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kremmer |first1=Christopher |title=White Mughal's burden |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/white-mughals-burden-20070526-gdq80z.html |access-date=26 November 2024 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=26 May 2007}}</ref> He has described his childhood as being old-fashioned and "almost [[Edwardian era|Edwardian]]". Among his forebears is a [[Mughal dynasty|Mughal]] princess who married a Dalrymple ancestor.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fox-Leonard |first1=Boudicca |title=William Dalrymple: We think everyone loves us in India, but it's a national myth of the first order |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/william-dalrymplewe-think-everyone-loves-us-india-national-myth/ |access-date=27 November 2024 |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=29 August 2020 |archive-date=7 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007091056/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/william-dalrymplewe-think-everyone-loves-us-india-national-myth/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Dalrymple was educated at [[Ampleforth College]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where he was first a history [[Exhibition (scholarship)|exhibitioner]] and then a senior history scholar.<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography – William Dalrymple |url=https://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com/biog |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201220131/https://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com/biog |archive-date=1 February 2022 |access-date=28 October 2017}}</ref>

== Career ==

=== Curator ===
Dalrymple was the curator of ''Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707–1857'', a major show of the late Mughal painting for the ''[[Asia Society]]'' in New York, which ran from February to May 2012.<ref>[http://sites.asiasociety.org/princesandpainters/ Princes and Painters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001081813/http://sites.asiasociety.org/princesandpainters/ |date=1 October 2012 }}, Asia Society retrieved 4 October 2012.</ref> A catalogue of this exhibit co-edited by Dalrymple with Yuthika Sharma was published by Yale University Press, then later in India by Penguin, in 2012 under the same name.<ref name="William Dalrymple`s book on first Anglo" /> In 2019, he curated the exhibition of [[Company style]] painting, ''Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company'', at the [[Wallace Collection]] in London.<ref>{{cite web |date=3 December 2019 |title=Forgotten Masters review – the natural history geniuses robbed by the British empire |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/03/forgotten-masters-review-the-natural-history-geniuses-robbed-by-the-british-empire |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

=== Authorship ===
[[File:William Dalrymple.jpg|thumb|200px|Dalrymple (left) with [[Esther Freud]] (centre) and [[Hanan Ashrawi]] at [[PalFest]] 2008.]]
Dalrymple's interests include the history and art of [[India]], [[Pakistan]], [[Afghanistan]], the [[Middle East]], [[Hinduism]], [[Buddhism]], the [[Jainism|Jains]] and early [[Eastern Christianity]]. Every one of his ten books has won literary prizes. His first three were travel books based on his journeys in the Middle East, India and Central Asia. His early influences included travel writers such as [[Robert Byron (travel writer)|Robert Byron]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/william-dalrymple|title=William Dalrymple – Literature|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-date=28 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828181540/https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/william-dalrymple|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Eric Newby]], and [[Bruce Chatwin]].

Dalrymple published a book of essays about current affairs in the Indian subcontinent, and four award-winning histories of the interaction between the East India Company and the peoples of India and Afghanistan between the eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century, his "Company Quartet". His books have been translated into more than 40 languages.

He is a regular contributor to ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'',<ref name="The New York Review of Books">{{cite web
|url = http://www.nybooks.com/authors/9809|title = Book review by William Dalrymple|access-date = 30 June 2007
|work = [[The New York Review of Books]]|archive-date = 10 June 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070610004850/http://www.nybooks.com/authors/9809|url-status = live}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url = http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_dalrymple/index.html|title = Articles by William Dalrymple|access-date = 30 June 2007|newspaper = The Guardian|location = London|archive-date = 4 January 2008|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20080104105443/http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/william_dalrymple/index.html
|url-status = dead}}</ref> the ''[[New Statesman]]''<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/william_dalrymple|title = Articles by William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007|work = The New York Review of Books|archive-date = 30 September 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930205317/http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/william_dalrymple|url-status = live
}}</ref> and ''[[The New Yorker]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|url = https://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=%22William+Dalrymple%22&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Submit&bylquery=&month1=-1&day1=-1&year1=-1&month2=-1&day2=-1&year2=-1&page=&sort=|title = Articles by William Dalrymple|access-date = 30 June 2007
|magazine = The New Yorker|archive-date = 29 September 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929165919/http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=%22William+Dalrymple%22&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Submit&bylquery=&month1=-1&day1=-1&year1=-1&month2=-1&day2=-1&year2=-1&page=&sort=|url-status = live}}</ref> He has also written many articles for [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']] magazine. He was the Indian Subcontinent correspondent of the ''[[New Statesman]]'' from 2004 to 2014.{{Citation needed|date=November 2025}} Dalrymple covered the [[First Intifada|First]] and [[Second Intifada|Second Intifadas]] as a journalist.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dalrymple |first=William |date=2002-10-01 |title=Profit and loss |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/oct/01/israel |access-date=2025-11-14 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="Lloyd-2024">{{Cite web |last=Lloyd |first=Will |date=2024-08-31 |title=William Dalrymple: Britain viewed India as an ignorant backwater. It wasn't |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/history/article/william-dalrymple-britain-viewed-india-as-an-ignorant-backwater-it-wasnt-g5n0nr7ld |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.is/rFsMj |archive-date=1 September 2024 |access-date=2025-11-14 |website=[[The Times]] |language=en}}</ref>

He attended the inaugural [[Palestine Festival of Literature]] in 2008, giving readings and taking workshops in [[Jerusalem]], [[Ramallah]] and [[Bethlehem]].<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://www.caabu.org/events/caabu/caabu-reception-evening-william-dalrymple
|title =Caabu Reception: An evening with William Dalrymple
|access-date =5 October 2012
|publisher =The Council for Arab-British Understanding}}</ref>

His 2009 book, ''Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India'', a study of some of the more esoteric forms of modern Indian, and especially Hindu spirituality, was published by Bloomsbury, and like all his others, went to the number one slot on the Indian non-fiction best-seller list.<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/bestsellers/William-s-new-book-tops-bestseller-list/Article1-467856.aspx
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110606111736/http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/bestsellers/William-s-new-book-tops-bestseller-list/Article1-467856.aspx
|url-status =dead
|archive-date =6 June 2011
|title =William's new book tops bestseller list
|date =22 October 2009
|access-date =28 October 2009
|newspaper =Hindustan Times}}</ref> After its publication he toured the UK, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia, Holland and the US with a band consisting of some of the people featured in his book including [[Sufis]], [[Fakirs]], [[Bauls]], [[Tevaram]] hymn singers as well as a prison warder and part-time [[Theyyam]] dancer widely believed to incarnate the god [[Vishnu]].<ref>{{cite web |url =https://www.ft.com/content/0acfc01e-a3e1-11de-9fed-00144feabdc0 |title =On Tour with the Madmen |date =18 September 2009 |work =Financial Times |location =London |access-date =3 May 2010 |archive-date =28 August 2010 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100828201439/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0acfc01e-a3e1-11de-9fed-00144feabdc0.html |url-status =live }}</ref>

''Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan'', a history of the [[First Anglo-Afghan War|First Afghan War 1839–42]], was published in India in December 2012,<ref name="William Dalrymple`s book on first Anglo">[http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/bookworm/william-dalrymple-s-book-on-first-anglo-afghan-war-out-in-december_2501.htm "William Dalrymple`s book on first Anglo-Afghan war out in December"], Zee News.</ref> in the UK in February 2013, and in the US in April 2013. Dalrymple's great-great-granduncle [[Colin Mackenzie (Indian Army officer)|Colin Mackenzie]] fought in the war and was briefly detained by the Afghans. Following the publication of the book Dalrymple was called to brief both the Afghan President [[Hamid Karzai]] and the [[White House]] on the lessons to be learned from Afghan history.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

In 2019 he published ''[[The Anarchy (book)|The Anarchy]]'', a history of the Indian subcontinent during the period from 1739 to 1803, which saw the collapse of the Mughal imperial system,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/east-india-company-sent-a-diplomat-to-jahangir-all-the-mughal-emperor-cared-about-was-beer/281255/|title=East India Company sent a diplomat to Jahangir & all the Mughal Emperor cared about was beer|date=24 August 2019|access-date=24 August 2019|archive-date=24 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824144031/https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/east-india-company-sent-a-diplomat-to-jahangir-all-the-mughal-emperor-cared-about-was-beer/281255/|url-status=live}}</ref> rise of the Maratha imperial confederacy, and the militarisation and rise to power of the [[East India Company]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders |title=Anarchy EIC |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 March 2015 |access-date=18 December 2016 |archive-date=26 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226080858/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders |url-status=live }}</ref> It was long-listed for the [[Baillie Gifford Prize]] 2019, and short listed for the Duke of Wellington medal for Military History, the Tata Book of the Year (Non-fiction) and the Historical Writers Association Book Award 2020. It was a Finalist for the [[Cundill Prize for History]] and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Bronze Medal from the US [[Council on Foreign Relations]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-21|title=US$75k Cundill History Prize 2020 finalists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/10/21/158205/us75k-cundill-history-prize-2020-finalists-announced/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=Books+Publishing|archive-date=26 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026165959/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/10/21/158205/us75k-cundill-history-prize-2020-finalists-announced/|url-status=live}}</ref>

As at 2020 he was writing a book that is "a sweeping look at India's ideological colonisation of Asia, China and Europe during the short period between 250 BC to about 800 AD."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/more-lifestyle/william-dalrymple-s-next-book-being-penned-through-lockdown/story-GQVDtc5BfI9GaB9MJcwksL.html|title=William Dalrymple's next book being penned through lockdown}}</ref> This book was published in September 2024 and is titled ''[[The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lakshmi |first=Rama |date=2024-03-08 |title=Silk Route talk irritates Dalrymple. His new book says India, not China, ruled trade, ideas |url=https://theprint.in/feature/around-town/silk-route-talk-irritates-dalrymple-his-new-book-says-india-not-china-ruled-trade-ideas/1992912/ |access-date=2024-08-29 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Golden Road by William Dalrymple — ancient India's cultural conquest of the globe |url=https://www.ft.com/content/e746b949-9137-45c9-b369-1e9778c59c1c |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=www.ft.com |archive-date=17 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240917215604/https://www.ft.com/content/e746b949-9137-45c9-b369-1e9778c59c1c |url-status=live }}</ref>

==TV, radio and podcasts==
Dalrymple has written and presented the six-part television series ''Stones of the Raj'' ([[Channel 4]], August 1997),<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28568
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080111223235/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28568
|url-status = dead
|archive-date = 11 January 2008
|title = Stones of the Raj
|access-date = 18 August 2007
|publisher = British Film Institute}}</ref> the three-part ''Indian Journeys'' (BBC, August 2002)<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k2/aug/aug107.htm
|title = BBC World to premiere Indian Journeys 20 August
|access-date = 18 August 2007
|publisher = Channel 4}}</ref> and ''Sufi Soul'' (Channel 4, Nov 2005).<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/sufi.html
|title = Sufi Soul
|access-date = 18 August 2007
|publisher = Channel 4 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070612183013/http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/sufi.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 12 June 2007}}</ref>

The six-part ''Stones of the Raj'' documents the stories behind some of [[British India's colonial architecture]] starting with ''Lahore'' (16 August 1997), ''The French Connection'' (23 August 1997), ''Calcutta'' (30 August 1997), ''The Fatal Friendship'' (6 September 1997), ''Surrey in Tibet'' (13 September 1997), and concluded with ''The Magnificent Ruin'' (20 September 1997).

The trilogy of ''Indian Journeys'' consists of three one-hour episodes starting with ''Shiva's Matted Locks'' which, while tracing the source of the [[Ganga]], takes Dalrymple on a journey to [[the Himalayas]]; the second part, ''City of Djinns'', is based on his travel book of the same name, and takes a look at [[Delhi's history]]; lastly, ''Doubting Thomas'' takes Dalrymple to the Indian states of [[Kerala]] and [[Tamil Nadu]], with which [[Thomas the Apostle]] of Jesus is closely associated.<ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/television/2002/august/28541.htm|date = 9 August 2002|title = The voyager – William Dalrymple|access-date = 17 August 2007|publisher = Mid Day}}</ref>

He has done a six-part history series ''The Long Search'' for [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]].<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/05_may/27/long_search.shtml|title = The Long Search|access-date = 18 August 2007|publisher = BBC|archive-date = 25 March 2010|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100325183531/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/05_may/27/long_search.shtml|url-status = live}}</ref> In this series, Dalrymple searches to discover the spiritual roots of the British Isles. Dalrymple says: "In the course of my travels I often came across the assumption that intense spirituality was somehow the preserve of what many call 'the mystic East'... it's a misconception that has always irritated me as I've always regarded our own indigenous British traditions of spirituality as especially rich."

The BBC broadcast a documentary on 3 September 2015 entitled ''Love and Betrayal in India: The White Mughal'',<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/18SDBJqWwgc7VLDM7MhGK2S/a-love-story-that-broke-the-conventional-boundaries-of-empire "A love story that broke the conventional boundaries of Empire"], BBC September 2015.</ref> based on Dalrymple's book ''White Mughals''.

Dalrymple was the historical consultant to ITV's 2019 series ''[[Beecham House]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1146791/Beecham-House-ITV-How-historically-accurate-is-Beecham-House-true-story-John-Beecham|title=Beecham House ITV: How historically accurate is Beecham House?|date=30 June 2019|access-date=26 May 2021|archive-date=26 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526182434/https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1146791/Beecham-House-ITV-How-historically-accurate-is-Beecham-House-true-story-John-Beecham|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.hindustantimes.com/tv/is-the-tv-show-beecham-house-a-case-of-raj-nostalgia-two-british-historians-weigh-in/story-BplhUbetnvk9HZEwnsrr3I.html|title = Is the TV show Beecham House a case of Raj nostalgia? Two British historians weigh in|date = 3 August 2019|access-date = 26 May 2021|archive-date = 26 May 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210526182436/https://www.hindustantimes.com/tv/is-the-tv-show-beecham-house-a-case-of-raj-nostalgia-two-british-historians-weigh-in/story-BplhUbetnvk9HZEwnsrr3I.html|url-status = live}}</ref>

In 2022 Dalrymple and the journalist [[Anita Anand (journalist)|Anita Anand]] created the [[podcast]] ''Empire'', the first series of which examines the British [[East India Company]] and British involvement and influence on India.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nicol |first=Patricia |title=The best podcasts on the British Empire and East India Company |work=[[The Times]] |location=London |date=2022-08-22 |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/the-best-podcasts-on-the-british-empire-and-east-india-company-8zxtkwpn5 |access-date=2022-08-31 |issn=0140-0460 |archive-date=31 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831124314/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-best-podcasts-on-the-british-empire-and-east-india-company-8zxtkwpn5 |url-status=live }}</ref> The pair had previously collaborated on the book ''[[Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond]]''. The Empire podcast went straight to No.1 in the UK Apple Podcast charts, had more than five million downloads in its first six months and was twice nominated for UK Podcast of the Year in the [[Broadcasting Press Guild]] Audio Awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.broadcastingpressguild.org/category/awards-latest/ |title=Politics, power and new voices dominate BPG Audio award nominations |website=broadcastingpressguild.org |date=3 March 2023 |access-date=13 March 2023 |archive-date=13 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313184035/http://www.broadcastingpressguild.org/category/awards-latest/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Dalrymple first went to [[Delhi]] on 26 January 1984,<ref>{{cite book |author=William Dalrymple |title=The Last Mughal |publisher=Penguin |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-143-10243-4 |page=6 |chapter=Introduction}}</ref> and has lived in India on and off since 1989 and spends most of the year at his [[Mehrauli]] farmhouse in the outskirts of Delhi,<ref>{{cite news |author=Karan Mahajan |date=February–March 2011 |title=The Don of Dehli |url=http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/017_05/7000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109063224/http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/017_05/7000 |archive-date=9 January 2019 |access-date=18 February 2011 |newspaper=Bookforum.com}}</ref> but summers in [[London]] and [[Edinburgh]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2025}}

Dalrymple's wife, [[Olivia Fraser (artist)|Olivia Fraser]], is an artist and comes from a family with long-standing connections to India. The couple have three children.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-05-20 |title=FarmHouses in Delhi – William Dalrymple Opens the doors to his Delhi Farmhouse {{!}} AD India |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/writer-in-residence-william-dalyrimple-opens-the-doors-to-his-delhi-farmhouse/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231118201138/https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/writer-in-residence-william-dalyrimple-opens-the-doors-to-his-delhi-farmhouse/ |archive-date=18 November 2023 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Architectural Digest India}}</ref> Fraser is related to the Scottish actress [[Rose Leslie]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Atwood |first=Margaret |author-link=Margaret Atwood |date=22 March 2015 |title=Margaret Atwood on Game of Thrones: 'Real people, every murderous one' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/mar/22/margaret-atwood-on-game-of-thrones-season-five?CMP=share_btn_tw |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406050211/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/mar/22/margaret-atwood-on-game-of-thrones-season-five?CMP=share_btn_tw |archive-date=6 April 2023 |access-date=30 March 2021 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> Their son [[Sam Dalrymple (historian)|Sam Dalrymple]] is a historian and a co-founder of [[Project Dastaan]], a peace initiative.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Habib |first=Waquar |date=2023-08-30 |title=Samuel Dalrymple on Showcasing The Partition With Sensitivity |url=https://www.outlooktraveller.com/editors-picks/celebrating-people/samuel-dalrymple-on-showcasing-the-partition-with-sensitivity |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Outlook Traveller}}</ref> The English journalist and author [[Alice Albinia]] is his cousin.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maclean |first=Rory |date=2008-12-04 |title=Travel books of the year |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/dec/04/travel-christmas-books-gifts |access-date=2023-09-18 |newspaper=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Dalrymple has been critical of Israel's actions during the [[Gaza war]] and the [[United Kingdom and the Gaza war|United Kingdom's support for Israel]].<ref name="Lloyd-2024" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hashem |first=Mohamed |date=7 July 2025 |title=William Dalrymple: 'Britain's education system sold me a lie about Palestine' |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/video/william-dalrymple-britains-education-system-sold-me-lie-about-palestine |access-date=2025-11-14 |website=[[Middle East Eye]] |language=en}}</ref> In a 2024 interview with ''[[The Times]]'', he made an analogy between Israel's [[Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip|response]] to the [[October 7 attacks]] and Britain's response to the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], saying, "The Mutiny has contemporary echoes. The same feeling that innocent women and children were attacked, and that it therefore provided a [[carte blanche]] for revenge and reprisals."<ref name="Lloyd-2024" /> In May 2025, Dalrymple signed an [[open letter]] calling the Gaza war a [[Gaza genocide|genocide]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Creamer |first=Ella |date=2025-05-28 |title=Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war 'genocide' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/gaza-letter-genocide-zadie-smith-ian-mcewan |access-date=2025-11-14 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In a September 2025 article for the ''[[New Statesman]]'', Dalrymple argued that Britain had a historic responsibility to help establish a [[Palestine|Palestinian state]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dalrymple |first=William |date=2025-09-17 |title=Britain must help establish a Palestinian state |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2025/09/britain-must-help-establish-a-palestinian-state |access-date=2025-11-14 |website=New Statesman |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
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=== Books ===
* ''[[In Xanadu]]'' (1989)
*''[[City of Djinns|City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi]]'' (1994)
*''[[From the Holy Mountain|From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium]]'' (1997)
*''[[The Age of Kali]]'' (1998)
*''[[White Mughals]]'' (2002)
*''[[The Last Mughal|The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857]]'' (2006)
*''[[Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India]]''. London, Bloomsbury (2009), {{ISBN|978-1-4088-0061-4}}
*''[[Return of a King|Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan]]'' (2012), {{ISBN|978-1-4088-1830-5}}
*''The Writer's Eye'' (2016), HarperCollins India, {{ISBN|978-9-3517-7925-4}}
*''[[Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond]]'' (2017), {{ISBN|978-1-63557-076-2}}
*''[[The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company]]'' (2019), {{ISBN|978-1-40886-437-1}}
*''[[The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World]]'' (2024), {{ISBN|978-1639734146}}

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*''Lonely Planet Sacred India''. Lonely Planet Publications, (1999) {{ISBN|1740593669}}
*''[[Begums Thugs And White Mughals|Begums, Thugs & White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes]]'' (2002)
*''Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707–1857''. Penguin Books India, (2012) {{ISBN|978-0-1434-1906-8}}
*''Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company''. Philip Wilson Publishers, (2020) {{ISBN|978-1781301012}}

=== Essays and reporting ===
* {{cite journal |author=Dalrymple, William |date=29 June 2015 |title=The great divide: The violent legacy of Indian Partition |journal=[[The New Yorker]] |volume=91 |issue=18 |pages=65–70 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/29/the-great-divide-books-dalrymple <!--|access-date=2023-01-13-->}}<ref group=lower-alpha>Title in the online table of contents is "The mutual genocide of Indian Partition".</ref> (Review of the book ''[[Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition|Midnight's Furies]]'' by [[Nisid Hajari]])

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==Awards and honours==
* ''In Xanadu'' received the 1990 ''[[Yorkshire Post]]'' Best First Work Award and the [[Scottish Arts Council]] Spring Book Award.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.oxfordbookstore.com/oxfordonline/asppages/item_final.asp?strSKU=BD95637&strSKUSrl=2&sid=2FK4E9B103R89N6LEB8SW8WC3C500439
|title = The Last Mughal
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Oxford Bookstore |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080111172107/http://www.oxfordbookstore.com/oxfordonline/asppages/item_final.asp?strSKU=BD95637&strSKUSrl=2&sid=2FK4E9B103R89N6LEB8SW8WC3C500439 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 11 January 2008}}</ref>
* ''City of Djinns'' received the 1994 [[Thomas Cook Travel Book Award]] and the ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|Sunday Times]]'' Young British Writer of the Year Award.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://home.comcast.net/~netaylor1/cooktravel.html
|title = thomas cook travel book award 1980–2003
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = THE BOOKLIST CENTER }}</ref>
* Elected a [[Royal Society of Literature|Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature]] (1995)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-01 |title=Dalrymple, William |url=https://rsliterature.org/fellows/william-dalrymple/,%20https://rsliterature.org/fellows/william-dalrymple/ |access-date=2025-07-06 |website=Royal Society of Literature |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* ''From the Holy Mountain'' received the 1997 [[Scottish Arts Council]] Autumn Book Award.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.stanfords.co.uk/stock/from-the-holy-mountain-a-journey-in-the-shadow-of-byzantium-72283/
|title = From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Stanfords
|archive-date = 27 September 2007
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927213051/http://www.stanfords.co.uk/stock/from-the-holy-mountain-a-journey-in-the-shadow-of-byzantium-72283/
|url-status = live
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* ''The Age of Kali'' (1998) won the 2005 French Prix d'Astrolabe.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.stanfords.co.uk/stock/age-of-kali-indian-travels-and-encounters-80706/
|title = Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Stanfords |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927213031/http://www.stanfords.co.uk/stock/age-of-kali-indian-travels-and-encounters-80706/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 27 September 2007}}</ref>
* ''White Mughals: Love & Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India'' (2002) won the 2001 [[Wolfson Prize for History]].<ref name="The City Circle">{{cite web
|url = http://www.thecitycircle.com/events_full_text2.php?id=347
|title = White Mughals
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = The City Circle |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071006094446/http://www.thecitycircle.com/events_full_text2.php?id=347 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 6 October 2007}}</ref>
* Dalrymple was awarded the [[Mungo Park Medal]] in 2002 by the [[Royal Scottish Geographical Society]] for his outstanding contribution to [[travel literature]].<ref name="Contemporary Writers: British Council">{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D193A0f109211E7HsY1BA97C3
 |title       = William Dalrymple
 |access-date  = 30 June 2007
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 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20071001130054/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D193A0f109211E7HsY1BA97C3
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}}</ref>
* The television series ''Stones of the Raj'' and ''Indian Journeys'', which Dalrymple wrote and presented, won him the [[Grierson Award]] for Best Documentary Series at [[BAFTA]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754
|title = William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Penguin Books India |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070109062249/http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 9 January 2007}}</ref>
* ''The Long Search'', Dalrymple's [[BBC Radio 4]] series on the history of British [[spirituality]] and [[mysticism]], won the 2002 [[Sandford St Martin Trust|Sandford St Martin Prize]] for Religious Broadcasting and was described by the judges as "thrilling in its brilliance...near perfect radio."<ref name="Contemporary Writers: British Council" />
* ''White Mughals: Love & Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India'' (2002) won the 2003 Scottish Book of the Year Prize.<ref name="The City Circle"/>
* Dalrymple's article on ''[[madrasas]]'' of Pakistan was awarded the prize for Best Print Article of the Year at the 2005 FPA Media Awards.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.cerebration.org/dalrymple.html
|title = Author in Focus: Interview with William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Penguin Books India}}</ref>
* The Sykes Medal in 2005 from the [[Royal Society for Asian Affairs]] for his contribution "to understanding (of) contemporary Islam."<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754
|title = William Dalrymple
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = Cerebration.Org |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070109062249/http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?aid=2754 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 9 January 2007}}</ref>
* An [[Honorary Doctorate]] of Letters, Honoris Causa, from the [[University of St. Andrews]] in 2006 "for his services to literature and international relations, to broadcasting and understanding."<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://calvin.st-andrews.ac.uk/external_relations/news_article.cfm?reference=955
|title = Honorary Degrees June 2006
|access-date = 30 June 2007
|publisher = University of St. Andrews
|archive-date = 26 August 2006
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060826034128/http://calvin.st-andrews.ac.uk/external_relations/news_article.cfm?reference=955
|url-status = live
}}</ref>
* ''The Last Mughal'' won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for History and Biography in February 2007.<ref name="The New York Review of Books"/>
* Dalrymple received an [[Honorary Doctorate]] of Letters, Honoris Causa, from the [[University of Lucknow]] in 2007 "for his outstanding contribution in literature and history."<ref>{{cite news
|url = http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Girls-steal-the-show-at-LU-convocation/240394/
|title = Girls steal the show at LU convocation
|date = 18 November 2007
|access-date = 19 November 2007
|publisher = Express India
|archive-date = 12 January 2008
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080112012343/http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Girls-steal-the-show-at-LU-convocation/240394/
|url-status = live
}}</ref>
* ''The Last Mughal'' won the 2007 [[Vodafone Crossword Book Award]] for best work in English non-fiction.<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/innernews.asp?storyId=72532&lmn=1&cat=18
|title =Vodafone Crossword Popular Book Awards honours best writers
|date =5 July 2008
|access-date =5 July 2008
|publisher =India Infoline.com
|archive-date =23 July 2011
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110723115634/http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/innernews.asp?storyId=72532&lmn=1&cat=18
|url-status =live
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* An [[Honorary Doctorate]] of Letters, Honoris Causa, from the [[University of Aberdeen]] (2008).<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/716673?UserKey=0
|title =Graduates told to make their mark in life
|date =8 July 2008
|access-date =5 July 2008
|publisher =The Press and Journal
|archive-date =19 May 2011
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110519041301/http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/716673?UserKey=0
|url-status =live
}}</ref>
* The 2008 Colonel James Tod Award given by the Maharana Mewar Foundation for achieving excellence in his field.<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/03/08/stories/2008030852170100.htm
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20121103023453/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/03/08/stories/2008030852170100.htm
|url-status =dead
|archive-date =3 November 2012
|title =The winners take it all
|date = 8 March 2008
|access-date = 6 August 2008
|work =[[The Hindu]]
|location=Chennai, India}}</ref>
* ''Nine Lives'' received the 2010 Asia House Award for Asian Literature.
* The Media Citizen Puraskar by the Indian Confederation of NGOs for emphasising as an author issues of global importance and concern.<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?702803
|title =Anupam Kher, William Dalrymple Honoured
|date =27 November 2010
|access-date =29 November 2010
|publisher =OutlookIndia.com
|archive-date =5 December 2010
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20101205230857/http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?702803
|url-status =dead
}}</ref>
* [[Honorary Doctorate]] from the [[University of Bradford]] for his contributions to creative writing, literature and the Indian Subcontinent history fields (2012).<ref>{{cite news
|url =http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/9817523.University_of_Bradford_degree_honours_for_familiar_faces/
|title =University of Bradford degree honours for familiar faces
|date =14 July 2012
|access-date =21 July 2017
|newspaper =The Telegraph & Argus
|archive-date =15 July 2016
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20160715101940/http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/9817523.University_of_Bradford_degree_honours_for_familiar_faces/
|url-status =live
}}</ref>
* Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the [[University of Edinburgh]].<ref>[http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/university-of-edinburgh-graduates-1-3816017 University Of Edinburgh graduates], ''The Scotsman'', 30 June 2015.</ref>
* The 2015 [[Premio Hemingway|Hemingway Prize]] for ''Return of a King''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304225028/http://www.telegraphindia.com/pressrelease/prnw/enin201506221778_indiapublic.html#.Vf-Q7H3CdTU "Bloomsbury is Delighted to Announce That the Italian Edition of William Dalrymple's Return of a King"], ''The Telegraph'', 23 June 2015.</ref>
* The 2015 [[Ryszard Kapuściński Award|Kapuściński Prize]] for ''Return of a King''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20151118123746/http://www.davidgodwinassociates.com/blog/2015/9/14/william-dalrymple-wins-the-kapuciski-prize William Dalrymple wins the Kapuściński Prize], David Godwin Associates, 14 September 2015.</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/bloomsburyindia/status/642243151558672384 Kapuściński Prize for RETURN OF A KING] Bloomsbury India's Twitter account 11 September 2015.</ref>
* Elected a Corresponding Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/william-dalrymple/|title=Mr William Hamilton Dalrymple CorrFRSE – The Royal Society of Edinburgh|work=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=2018-03-14|archive-date=15 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315030703/https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/william-dalrymple/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Dalrymple |first=William |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26483320 |title=BBC News – Is Afghanistan really impossible to conquer? |publisher=BBC |date=2014-03-08 |access-date=2014-08-11 |archive-date=1 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180301023804/http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26483320 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* He was awarded the [[President's Medal (British Academy)|President's Medal]] of the [[British Academy]] "for his literary achievements and for co-founding Jaipur Literary Festival".<ref name="British Academy-2018"/>
* He was awarded the 2022 [[Minerva Medal]] of the [[Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow]] for his contribution to the writing of history. 
* Elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Historical Society]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://royalhistsoc.org/society-elects-239-new-fellows-associate-fellows-members-and-postgraduate-members/ |title=Society elects 239 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members |date=30 September 2022|publisher=The Royal Historical Society|access-date=5 February 2023}}</ref>
* Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the [[University of York]] (2023).<ref>Horner, Emily Horner (17 July 2023), [https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/23660068.university-york-announce-honorary-graduates-2023 "University of York announce the honorary graduates for 2023"], University of York.{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719132931/https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/23660068.university-york-announce-honorary-graduates-2023/ |date=19 July 2023 }} </ref>

* Elected Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literature (2024)

==See also==
* [[Yvonne, Lady Cochrane]]

==References==
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