A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.
SAM DALRYMPLE is a Delhi-raised Scottish historian and award-winning filmmaker. He graduated from Oxford University as a Persian and Sanskrit scholar, and also studied at the University of Isfahan and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran. 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 his animated series Lost Migrationssold out at the BFI the same year. He is a columnist for Architectural Digest, and in 2025, Travel & Leisure named him ' Champion of the Travel Narrative '. He runs the history Substack @ travelsofsamwise. Shattered Lands is his first book.
