Sam Dalrymple

Sam Dalrymple is a Delhi-raised Scottish historian and award-winning filmmaker. He has worked across South and Central Asia, including stints with Turquoise Mountain in Kabul, and with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Hunza and Lahore. In 2018, he co-founded Project Dastaan, a peace-building initiative that reconnects refugees displaced by the 1947 Partition of India. His debut film, Child of Empire, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022, and received the inaugural XR History Award from the Körber-Stiftung Foundation. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and The Spectator, and his highly acclaimed debut book, Shattered Lands, tells the story of how the map of modern Asia was made.