The Latest Breaking News from William Dalrymple

Maxime Knudsen found graves of his great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother, Fayz un Nissa, in Hyderabad after two years of searching. With help from author William Dalrymple, he located the tomb on Troop Bazaar Road. The tomb, built in 1828, has been restored and will connect Bank Street with Residency Building. It is…

The Nigerian-born writer has been made Knight Bachelor in the King’s birthday honours for services to literature.

The royal family has decided to leave the 105-carat gem out of this weekend's coronation ceremony. The Koh-i-noor has become a focus of anti-colonial anger. India wants it back.

The conspicuous absence of the Kohinoor, claimed by India, from the historic Coronation ceremony of King Charles here in London on April 29 reflects a new reality of looking back at Britain's colonial past and to learn more about the truth of the Raj, feels the British Indian co-author behind…

Award-winning historian William Dalrymple's 2019 book 'The Anarchy' will be adapted into a series soon. This will be 'an international co-production between Wiip and Roy Kapur Films to be produced across the U.S., U.K. and India,' reported Variety.

French is described by friends and peers as an ‘unfailingly generous’ human being whose writing about sensitive and complex issues surrounding India was widely admired

The huge diamond is steeped in history and controversy over how it came to be in the possession of British royalty

The huge diamond is steeped in history and controversy over how it came to be in the possession of British royalty

How did a corporation of merchants bring down and pauperise the subcontinent, a territory of immense wealth? “The more it recedes into memory, the weirder it becomes,” admitted William Dalrymple. “Looking at it now, it’s inconceivable, but you have to make the imaginative leap.”

The 68-year-old British novelist, whose works include ‘The Buddha Of Suburbia’, said he might never hold a pen again

The Koh-i-Noor diamond, worth an estimated £350m, came from India's Alluvial mines and eventually came into the possession of British royal family in the mid-1800s.