course of my travels I often came across the assumption that intense spirituality was somehow the preserve of what many call 'the mystic East'... it's a misconception that has always irritated me as I've always regarded our own indigenous British traditions of spirituality as especially rich." The BBC broadcast a documentary on 3 September 2015 entitled Love and Betrayal in India: The White Mughal, based on Dalrymple's book White Mughals. Dalrymple was the historical consultant to ITV's 2019 series Beecham House. In 2022, Dalrymple teamed up with journalist Anita Anand to create the podcast Empire, the first series of which examines the British East India Company and British involvement and influence on India. The pair had previously collaborated on the book Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond. Bibliography Books City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (1994) From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (1997) The Age of Kali (1998) White Mughals (2002) The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 (2006) Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India. London, Bloomsbury. (2009) Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (2012) The Writer’s Eye (2016) Harper Collins India Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond (2017) The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company (2019) Editor Lonely Planet Sacred India. Lonely Planet Publications, (1999) Begums, Thugs & White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes (2002) Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707–1857. Penguin Books India, (2012) Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company. Philip Wilson Publishers, (2020) Essays and reporting ——————— Notes Awards and honours In Xanadu received the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and the Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award. City of Djinns received the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. From the Holy Mountain received the 1997 Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award. The Age of Kali (1998) won the 2005 French Prix d'Astrolabe. White Mughals: Love & Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India (2002) won the 2001 Wolfson Prize for History. Dalrymple was awarded the Mungo Park Medal in 2002 by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his outstanding contribution to travel literature. The television series Stones of the Raj and Indian Journeys, which Dalrymple wrote and presented, won him the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series