The Tale of James Achilles Kirkpatrick | William Dalrymple introduced by Shashi Tharoor

In an insightful session at the Jaipur Literature Festival, historian and bestselling author, William Dalrymple, talked about the rise and fall of the East India Company. In this clip, Dalrymple speaks about an officer and diplomat, James Achilles Kirkpatrick, a Scotsman who was enchanted by the culture of India and even adopted native costumes and listened to Indian music. Telling his complicated tale and his love story with Kahir-Un-Nissa, Dalrymple narrates a fascinating episode from 18th-19th century India. He also notes that behind the story of conquest of India by the British, one also witnesses examples of a counter-conquest of the British by India, in a cultural context. Reading out a letter from his book, the historian gives a glimpse of the extraordinary journey and the experience of Katherine Aurora “Kitty” Kirkpatrick and how, years later, she reconnected with her grandmother who was living in India.

William Dalrymple - is the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapucinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His most recent book, The Anarchy, was short listed for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year and the Historical Writers Association Award, was a Finalist for the Cundill Prize for History and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has been awarded five honorary doctorates, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown and Oxford, where he is currently an Honourary Bodleian fellow. In 2018, he was presented with the prestigious President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Shashi Tharoor - a third-term Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of twenty-three books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a former Under Secretary- General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, Dr. Tharoor was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in the category of ‘English Non- Fiction’ for his book An Era of Darkness. He chairs the Indian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Information Technology.

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