Event details
Oct
27
Sam Dalrymple | Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Sam Dalrymple discusses his new book, Shattered Lands | Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia, a bold and sweeping history of modern South Asia, told through the five partitions that reshaped it.
Sam Dalrymple is a historian, filmmaker, and cofounder of Project Dastaan, a peace-building initiative that reconnects refugees displaced by the 1947 partition of India. He graduated from the University of Oxford as a Persian and Sanskrit scholar, and lives in Delhi.
Sam Dalrymple is a historian, filmmaker, and cofounder of Project Dastaan, a peace-building initiative that reconnects refugees displaced by the 1947 partition of India. He graduated from the University of Oxford as a Persian and Sanskrit scholar, and lives in Delhi.
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Date
October 27, 2026Time
10:40 a.m.Location
Green Hall, 0-S-6Audience
University Sponsors
South Asian Studies