Lords of the Southern Deccan: India from Chalukyas to Cholas
Discussion with William Dalrymple and Anirudh Kanisetti at KLF 2023
William Dalrymple: William Dalrymple, the author of The Anarchy is a Scottish historian and writer, art historian and curator, as well as an award-winning broadcaster and critic. His books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Hemingway, the Kapuscinski and the Wolfson Prizes. He has been five times longlisted and once shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. The television series Stones of the Raj and Indian Journeys, which Dalrymple wrote and presented, won him the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002.
Anirudh Kanisetti: Anirudh Kanisetti is the author of Lords of the Deccan, a new history of medieval South India. He is currently Editor at the Museum of Art and Photography. He has received grants from the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities and the India Foundation for the Arts, and his writings and work have been featured in The Hindu, The New Indian Express, and LiveMint, among others. He writes the fortnightly Thinking Medieval column for ThePrint, and the History, Southside column for The Hindustan Times. He hosts two critically acclaimed podcasts- Echoes of India and Yuddha.
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