Sam Dalrymple is a Delhi-raised Scottish historian, filmmaker, and Persian and Sanskrit scholar from Oxford. In 2018, he co-founded Project Dastaan, a peace-building initiative reconnecting refugees of the 1947 Partition. Its VR film Child of Empire premiered at Sundance in 2022, winning the inaugural XR History Award, while its animated series Lost Migrations sold out at the BFI. His debut book, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia, was a bestseller in India, translated into three languages, and shortlisted for the 2025 Eastern Eye Award for History and longlisted for the Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman.