19 - 23 January 2023 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur
William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His most recent book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, was a finalist for the Cundill Prize for History and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has been awarded five honorary doctorates, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently an Honorary Bodleian fellow. In 2018, he was presented with the prestigious President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
19 Jan | 09:50 AM - 10:50 AM | Venue - FRONT LAWN
01. Inaugural Ceremony and Keynote Address
Address by Namita Gokhale, William Dalrymple and Sanjoy Roy , Keynote by Abdulrazak Gurnah
20 Jan | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Venue - DURBAR HALL
45. Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
Nandini Das in conversation with William Dalrymple
21 Jan | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Venue - FRONT LAWN
93. The Elephant and the Dragon: A Connected History
Tansen Sen, JJ Singh and Shyam Saran in conversation with William Dalrymple
20 Jan | 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Venue - FRONT LAWN
79. The Song of the Cell
Siddhartha Mukherjee in conversation with William Dalrymple
22 Jan | 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Venue - Fondation Jan Michalski BAITHAK
151. The Kama Traditions
Alka Pande intoduced by William Dalrymple
21 Jan | 05:30 PM - 06:20 PM | Venue - DURBAR HALL
143. The Great Caves of India: Ajanta, Bandavgarh, Ellora and Aurangabad
Pia Brancaccio, Nayanjot Lahiri, Anirudh Kanisetti in conversation with William Dalrymple
23 Jan | 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Venue - FRONT LAWN
207. Empire: The Story of a World Conquering Podcast
William Dalrymple and Anita Anand in conversation with Bee Rowlatt
23 Jan | 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Venue - Bank of Baroda CHARBAGH
234. Lives between Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant
Michael Vatikiotis in conversation with William Dalrymple
19 Jan | 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Venue - DURBAR HALL
32. The Travel Session
Edmund De Waal, Anna Della Subin and Anthony Sattin in conversation with William Dalrymple
22 Jan | 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM | Venue - Hawthornden Foundation MUGHAL TENT
168. First Edition: A Pathway from Hygiene to Wellness
launched by Upma Chawdhury, Gaurav Jain, Ravi Bhatnagar, Amitabh Kant, Sanjoy.K. Roy and William Dalrymple