Sam Dalrymple | |
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, writer, film-maker, peace activist, social media influencer |
| Movement | Project Dastaan |
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Sam Dalrymple is a historian, writer, film-maker, peace activist, and social media influencer. [1] [2]
Dalrymple was born to historian William Dalrymple and artist Olivia Fraser. [3] 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. [4] His father is a great nephew of Virginia Woolf and a cousin of writer Alice Albinia. [5] [6]
Dalrymple graduated as a Persian and Sanskrit scholar from the University of Oxford. [1]
Dalrymple along with Sparsh Ahuja and Saadia Gardezi founded Project Dastaan, a peace-building initiative that reconnects refugees displaced by the Partition of India. [7]
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. [1] [8] His animated anthology "Lost Migrations" was a sell-out at the British Film Institute. [1] [9]
Dalrymple's book, Shattered Lands: The Five Partitions of India 1935–1975, is due to be published in 2024 by William Collins Books. [1] [10]