30 January - 3 February 2025 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur
William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. He was presented with the 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.
02 Feb | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Venue - CHARBAGH
42. The Orient Isle
Jerry Brotton in conversation with William Dalrymple
05 Feb | 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | Venue - DURBAR HALL
215. Traders, Teachers, Travelers
Naman Ahuja and Sureshkumar Muthukumaran in conversation with William Dalrymple
01 Feb | 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Venue - HAWTHORNDEN FOUNDATION MUGHAL TENT
33.FIRST EDITION: "Celestial" by Abhay K.
Abhay K. in conversation with Katherine Schofield, launch by William Dalrymple
03 Feb | 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | Venue - DURBAR HALL
120. Cholas at War
Kamini Dandapani and Anirudh Kanisetti in conversation with William Dalrymple
02 Feb | 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Venue - SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB S9 SERIES FRONT LAWN
79. FIRST EDITION: 'The Loharu Legacy' by Rakhshanda Jalil
Durru Mian and Rakhshanda Jalil, launch by Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple
01 Feb | 09:50 AM - 10:50 AM | Venue - SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB S9 SERIES FRONT LAWN
01. Inaugural Ceremony
Address by Honourable Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan Diya Kumari, Namita Gokhale, William Dalrymple and Sanjoy K. Roy
03 Feb | 05:30 PM - 06:20 PM | Venue - SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB S9 SERIES FRONT LAWN
132. William Blake in Song and Words
Susheela Raman, Sam Mills and William Dalrymple in performance
05 Feb | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Venue - SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB S9 SERIES FRONT LAWN
189. Shahjahanabad: On Delhi's Broken History
Swapna Liddle and Rana Safvi in conversation with William Dalrymple
05 Feb | 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM | Venue - DURBAR HALL
200. Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
Aarathi Prasad in conversation with William Dalrymple
04 Feb | 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM | Venue - DURBAR HALL
158. FIRST EDITION "Swallowing the Sun" by Lakshmi Puri
Lakshmi Puri in conversation with Vikas Swarup; Launch by Sanjoy K. Roy, Namita Gokhale, William Dalrymple
02 Feb | 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM | Venue - CHARBAGH
53. Travel Session
Colin Thubron, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sam Miller, Yuvan Aves, and Divrina Dhingra in conversation with William Dalrymple
02 Feb | 05:30 PM - 06:20 PM | Venue - SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB S9 SERIES FRONT LAWN
83. Inspiration to Creation
Marcus du Sautoy, Hernan Diaz, Vidya Shah, William Dalrymple, Mukesh Bansal, Kanan Gill and Albert Read in conversation with Sanjoy K Roy
