JGU hosted its campus on April 11 a Distinguished Public Lecture by Mr. William Dalrymple, one of Britain's great historians and the bestselling author of the White Mughals (Winner of the Wolfson Prize), The Last Mughal (Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize), and Return of a King (Winner of the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prizes).
The lecture was followed by a Meet and Greet with Mr. Dalrymple where the JGU community had the opportunity to interact with him and get copies of his latest book ‘The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World’ signed.
Mr. William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s great historians and the bestselling author. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He has also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the FPA Media Awards and has been awarded five honorary doctorates. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting fellowships at Princeton, Brown and All Souls, University of Oxford. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker and The Guardian. In 2018, he was presented with the prestigious President’s Medal by the British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. He is the co-host of the chart-topping podcast Empire with Anita Anand.