Sam Dalrymple | |
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| Born | February 1997 (age 28) [1] |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Occupations | Historian, author, film-maker, peace activist, social media influencer |
| Notable work | Shattered Lands |
| Movement | Project Dastaan |
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Samuel Hew Tantallon Dalrymple (born February 1997) [1] [2] is a Scottish historian, author, film-maker, activist, and social media influencer. [3] [4]
Dalrymple was born to public historian William Dalrymple and artist Olivia Fraser. [5] His paternal grandfather was Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th Baronet of North Berwick, [2] and his paternal grandmother was a daughter of Walter Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle. [6] His father is a great nephew of Virginia Woolf and a cousin of writer Alice Albinia. [7] [8]
Dalrymple graduated as a Sanskrit and Persian scholar from the University of Oxford. [3] [9]
Dalrymple along with Sparsh Ahuja and Saadia Gardezi founded Project Dastaan, a peace-building initiative that reconnects refugees displaced by the Partition of India. [10]
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. [3] [11] His animated anthology "Lost Migrations" was a sell-out at the British Film Institute. [3] [12]
Dalrymple's book, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia, was published in 2025 by HarperCollins. [13] [14] It has been received positively. [15] [16]