Sam Dalrymple is a historian and the author of Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia, an international bestseller shortlisted for the 2026 Cundill History Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the co-founder of Project Dastaan, an award-winning oral history and peacebuilding initiative that reconnects refugees displaced by the 1947 Partition with their ancestral homes. Dalrymple read Sanskrit and Persian and in 2026, he guest-edited a special issue of the art history journal MARG on temple architecture and destruction in early modern Hindustan.
Current Projects:
Shattered Lands Prequel (Untitled)
Recent Publications:
Dalrymple, S. Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia (William Collins: London, 2025)
Dalrymple, S. (ed.) “Beyond the Mughal Arch: Temples in Early Modern Hindustan”, MARG 77, no.3 (March 2026
Connect with Sam:
Website: www.samdalrymple.com
Instagram: @travelsofsamwise
Twitter: @samdalrymple123
Substack: @Travelsofsamwise
