Sam Dalrymple

Sam Dalrymple is a Delhi-raised Scottish historian, filmmaker, and multimedia producer. He graduated from the University of Oxford as a Persian and Sanskrit scholar, where he served as president and co-founder of the Oxford University Silk Road Society. In 2018, he co-founded Project Dastaan, a peace-building initiative that reconnects refugees displaced by the 1947 Partition of India.

His work has been published in The New York Times and featured in TIME, The New Yorker and The Economist. He is also a columnist for Architectural Digest. His debut book, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia, was published by William Collins in 2025 and explores how the partitioning of Britain’s Indian Empire shaped modern South and Central Asia.

Sam has collaborated with BBC Radio 4, and his debut film, ‘Child of Empire,’ premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022. The premiere of his animated series ‘Lost Migrations’ sold out at the British Film Institute. With a passion for uncovering hidden interiors and an obsession with street food, he spends much of his free time seeking out heritage sites across South Asia and the Middle East.