Sam Dalrymple (historian)

Sam Dalrymple is a historian, writer, film-maker, peace activist, and social media influencer.

Early life and education

Dalrymple was born to historian William Dalrymple and artist Olivia Fraser. His paternal grandfather was Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th Baronet of North Berwick, and his paternal grandmother was a daughter of Walter Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle. His father is a great nephew of Virginia Woolf and a cousin of writer Alice Albinia.

Dalrymple graduated as a Persian and Sanskrit scholar from the University of Oxford.

Career

Dalrymple along with Sparsh Ahuja and Saadia Gardezi founded Project Dastaan, a peace-building initiative that reconnects refugees displaced by the Partition of India.

Dalrymple's first film, Child of Empire, was a VR docudrama detailing the horrors of forced migration and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022. His animated anthology "Lost Migrations" was a sell-out at the British Film Institute.

Dalrymple's book, Shattered Lands: The Five Partitions of India 1935–1975, is due to be published in 2024 by William Collins Books.