278. Partition: India’s Break With Burma (Part 1)

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnhem. And me, William Durympool. I have to say this is a a very special episode of Empire because those of you who listen regularly will know that I have some kind of anaphylactic shock when we have more than one Dalrymple. I mean, you know, there's a splattering of Dalrymple throughout this podcast because William seems to be related to everyone.

But I could not be more delighted today because we have well one of my favourite Dalrymples. It's not William, it's you, Sam Dalrymple, historian, and also, we should say, son of the other Dalrymple. But you're here because you've written this masterful first book. Can I just say it makes me sick with envy that this is your first book, Sam Delrymple.

It's, I mean, astonishing. I find it irritating too if it's any comfort. Do you know I've said to um your father that if this were a Greek tragedy, you ought to be hiding in a cave. Because like seriously, these things don't go well in Greek. I know.

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