[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @DalrympleWill William Dalrymple William Dalrymple posts on X about india, history, white, the world the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::928219752/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +88% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::928219752/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX -XX% - X Months XXXXX +115% - X Year XXXXX -XXXX% ### Followers: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::928219752/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::928219752/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [india](/topic/india) 9.62%, [history](/topic/history) #4194, [white](/topic/white) 3.85%, [the world](/topic/the-world) 3.85%, [the british](/topic/the-british) #588, [remarkable](/topic/remarkable) #160, [white house](/topic/white-house) 1.92%, [books](/topic/books) 1.92%, [the first](/topic/the-first) 1.92%, [uzbekistan](/topic/uzbekistan) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@empirepoduk](/creator/undefined) [@jaipurlitfest](/creator/undefined) [@rumeliobserver](/creator/undefined) [@tweeteranita](/creator/undefined) [@indiatoday](/creator/undefined) [@nntaleb](/creator/undefined) [@kaptere_mumbi](/creator/undefined) [@hartoft](/creator/undefined) [@nfergus](/creator/undefined) [@liberationscot](/creator/undefined) [@guardian](/creator/undefined) [@karwaanheritage](/creator/undefined) [@crosswordbook](/creator/undefined) [@timwig](/creator/undefined) [@ruxanacnargol](/creator/undefined) [@newcastlehigh](/creator/undefined) [@cfmmuk](/creator/undefined) [@bbcnews](/creator/undefined) [@newstatesman](/creator/undefined) [@anneirfan](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "New series from @EmpirePodUK THE HISTORY OF GAZA" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1968665041281966495) 2025-09-18T13:14Z 1.2M followers, 1.4M engagements "Well done @guardian for having the guts to publish this Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18457 children on Gazas list of war dead" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1975841066655096905) 2025-10-08T08:29Z 1.2M followers, 768.2K engagements ""Trump Has Long Disdained Europes Elites. Now Its Official. A new White House policy document formalizes President Trumps long-held contempt for Europes leaders. It made clear that the continent now stands at a strategic crossroads"" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1997413576873529805) 2025-12-06T21:11Z 1.2M followers, 8648 engagements "The second episode of our Kipling series sees Kipling leave India and end up writing his two most celebrated Indian books in the improbable setting of Vermont" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1996426664256131265) 2025-12-04T03:49Z 1.2M followers, 18.7K engagements "Thanks so much @karwaanheritage Although I've lived in India for XX years as a Brit I am usually ineligible for Indian literary awards- @crossword_book awards actually changed the rules to exclude non-Indians after I won it for Last Mughal. So I am especially grateful for this" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1999735724393033976) 2025-12-13T06:58Z 1.2M followers, 11.8K engagements "In which a rambling racist & incoherent Trump shows he is siding with Putin against democracy" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1998462291096789000) 2025-12-09T18:38Z 1.2M followers, 33.7K engagements "@RuxanaCNargol @NewcastleHigh Thank you and hurrah for Newcastle High. I was taught the usual bollocks about the Israelis making the desert flower" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1999452082043302312) 2025-12-12T12:11Z 1.2M followers, XX engagements "The Sirdarya or Jaxartes running just below Babur's home fortress of Akshikent near Namangan in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan. For more about the childhood of Babur check out the first episode of our @EmpirePodUK Mughal series Babur: Prince Exile & Refugee" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1859101050092818844) 2024-11-20T05:06Z 1.2M followers, 11.4K engagements "There has been a lot of talk about BBC bias today. Its a good moment to remember the BBC Gaza Report @cfmmuk by the Centre for Media Monitoring just to remind ourselves of the scandalous bias against Palestine @BBCNews in the face of the Gaza Genocide" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1987771631629123903) 2025-11-10T06:37Z 1.2M followers, 526.2K engagements "Wonderful- and entirely characteristic- Tom Stoppard story.This is integrity. This is how we writers must roll if our work is to mean anything at all: "Steven Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws and Tom said he couldnt as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV" "No" Tom said "BBC Radio."" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1995378407979552819) 2025-12-01T06:24Z 1.2M followers, 79.1K engagements "In 1893 Kipling and his young American wife built a house in Vermont and named it Naulakha after the book he had written about a precious Indian jewel. The solitude of Vermont made Kipling healthy energetic and productive. Four years in New England generated a flow of poems stories and a novel. Yet little of his American writing has anything to do with America. Kipling still found himself obsessed with India" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1996428337636585660) 2025-12-04T03:56Z 1.2M followers, 12.6K engagements "The impact of Recessional and some of its successors was such that as Mark Twain observed Kipling was the only living person not head of a nationwhose voice is heard around the world the moment it drops a remark the only such voice in existence that does not go by slow ship and rail but always travels first-class by cable. With Recessional Kipling came to be regarded as a national symbol a one-man embodiment of the Empire" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1998241647138832812) 2025-12-09T04:01Z 1.2M followers, 8742 engagements "Kiplings attitudes to Empire reflected his times and by the 1920s came to be regarded as outdated at best fuddy duddy Victoriana at worst the work of a reprehensible bigot. Even as the Raj was still standing George Orwell attacked Kiplings writing as the work of a jingo imperialist who sold out to the British governing class crude vulgar a patriotic music-hall turn morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. Today Kiplings political views seem absurd xenophobic and ultra-racist: he hated Mahatma Gandhi and donated money for General Dyer after he committed the Jallianwallah Bagh" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1998243459455668706) 2025-12-09T04:09Z 1.2M followers, 9363 engagements "Why then should anyone read his writing today Because as Orwell also recognised Kipling was a writer of genius and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As Edward Said put it: Kipling would no more have questioned the right of the white European to rule than he would have argued with the Himalayas. Yet Kipling was a major artist and his masterpiece Kim a remarkable complex novel belonging to the worlds greatest literature made the more interesting because Kipling was not a neutral figure in the Anglo-Indian situation but a prominent actor in it It is a work of great aesthetic merit; and" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1998244266683117594) 2025-12-09T04:12Z 1.2M followers, 16.5K engagements ""New Trump doctrine identifies weak Europes problem: not enough racism. The new US national security strategy represents one of the most profound crises for the Atlantic alliance since 1945"" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1998606400055017872) 2025-12-10T04:11Z 1.2M followers, 24.8K engagements ""Dalrymple will perform alongside India Alba a collective of Indian and Scottish musicians who fuse their traditional backgrounds. Following its debut the piece will evolve and return in an expanded form for a performance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August 2026"" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1999469621288821181) 2025-12-12T13:21Z 1.2M followers, 2405 engagements "This is a properly shocking document subtly Islamophobic & white nationalist in intent and Europeans need to wake up and realise that as long as MAGA runs America they are on their own. The British in particular need to realise the old alliance with the US is now over" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1997251234655592823) 2025-12-06T10:26Z 1.2M followers, 148.1K engagements "New from @EmpirePodUK The final part Part X of our trilogy on arguably the most imperial of imperial writersRudyard Kipling: KIPLING LAUREATE OF EMPIRE" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1998235592249979309) 2025-12-09T03:37Z 1.2M followers, 51K engagements "No surprise that this news has been ignored by the entire Western media" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1998680763764760588) 2025-12-10T09:06Z 1.2M followers, 32.9K engagements "New from @EmpirePodUK To conclude our Writers on Empire series we do a deep dive into the life of VS Naipaul: AN AREA OF DARKNESS THE MAKING OF VS NAIPAUL With Pulitzer Prize winner Ben Moser" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1998963342652924088) 2025-12-11T03:49Z 1.2M followers, 73.2K engagements "Recovering the lost history of Gaza My @NewStatesman review of two remarkable new histories of Gaza by @anneirfan & Jean-Pierre Filiu" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1999181147251859473) 2025-12-11T18:15Z 1.2M followers, 44.7K engagements ""The world premiere of The Golden Road a collaboration inspired by William Dalrymples book will take place at Glasgow Celtic Connections in January 2026. Dalrymple will perform alongside India Alba."" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1999468997411242490) 2025-12-12T13:18Z 1.2M followers, 4088 engagements ""New Israeli barrier will slice through precious West Bank farmland. Palestinians who have worked the breadbasket area for generations face being replaced by Israeli settlers"" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1999836651577815328) 2025-12-13T13:39Z 1.2M followers, 31K engagements "Important & fascinating thread on how early Zionist pioneers saw themselves as colonists and how Weitzman even compared the Jewish Agency which managed land purchases to the East India Company" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1998957433071550617) 2025-12-11T03:26Z 1.2M followers, 46K engagements "'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/2000287282620965032) 2025-12-14T19:30Z 1.2M followers, 10.4K engagements
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@DalrympleWill William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple posts on X about india, history, white, the world the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social category influence countries XXXXX% celebrities XXXX% travel destinations XXXX%
Social topic influence india 9.62%, history #4194, white 3.85%, the world 3.85%, the british #588, remarkable #160, white house 1.92%, books 1.92%, the first 1.92%, uzbekistan XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @empirepoduk @jaipurlitfest @rumeliobserver @tweeteranita @indiatoday @nntaleb @kaptere_mumbi @hartoft @nfergus @liberationscot @guardian @karwaanheritage @crosswordbook @timwig @ruxanacnargol @newcastlehigh @cfmmuk @bbcnews @newstatesman @anneirfan
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"New series from @EmpirePodUK THE HISTORY OF GAZA"
X Link 2025-09-18T13:14Z 1.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Well done @guardian for having the guts to publish this Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18457 children on Gazas list of war dead"
X Link 2025-10-08T08:29Z 1.2M followers, 768.2K engagements
""Trump Has Long Disdained Europes Elites. Now Its Official. A new White House policy document formalizes President Trumps long-held contempt for Europes leaders. It made clear that the continent now stands at a strategic crossroads""
X Link 2025-12-06T21:11Z 1.2M followers, 8648 engagements
"The second episode of our Kipling series sees Kipling leave India and end up writing his two most celebrated Indian books in the improbable setting of Vermont"
X Link 2025-12-04T03:49Z 1.2M followers, 18.7K engagements
"Thanks so much @karwaanheritage Although I've lived in India for XX years as a Brit I am usually ineligible for Indian literary awards- @crossword_book awards actually changed the rules to exclude non-Indians after I won it for Last Mughal. So I am especially grateful for this"
X Link 2025-12-13T06:58Z 1.2M followers, 11.8K engagements
"In which a rambling racist & incoherent Trump shows he is siding with Putin against democracy"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:38Z 1.2M followers, 33.7K engagements
"@RuxanaCNargol @NewcastleHigh Thank you and hurrah for Newcastle High. I was taught the usual bollocks about the Israelis making the desert flower"
X Link 2025-12-12T12:11Z 1.2M followers, XX engagements
"The Sirdarya or Jaxartes running just below Babur's home fortress of Akshikent near Namangan in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan. For more about the childhood of Babur check out the first episode of our @EmpirePodUK Mughal series Babur: Prince Exile & Refugee"
X Link 2024-11-20T05:06Z 1.2M followers, 11.4K engagements
"There has been a lot of talk about BBC bias today. Its a good moment to remember the BBC Gaza Report @cfmmuk by the Centre for Media Monitoring just to remind ourselves of the scandalous bias against Palestine @BBCNews in the face of the Gaza Genocide"
X Link 2025-11-10T06:37Z 1.2M followers, 526.2K engagements
"Wonderful- and entirely characteristic- Tom Stoppard story.This is integrity. This is how we writers must roll if our work is to mean anything at all: "Steven Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws and Tom said he couldnt as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV" "No" Tom said "BBC Radio.""
X Link 2025-12-01T06:24Z 1.2M followers, 79.1K engagements
"In 1893 Kipling and his young American wife built a house in Vermont and named it Naulakha after the book he had written about a precious Indian jewel. The solitude of Vermont made Kipling healthy energetic and productive. Four years in New England generated a flow of poems stories and a novel. Yet little of his American writing has anything to do with America. Kipling still found himself obsessed with India"
X Link 2025-12-04T03:56Z 1.2M followers, 12.6K engagements
"The impact of Recessional and some of its successors was such that as Mark Twain observed Kipling was the only living person not head of a nationwhose voice is heard around the world the moment it drops a remark the only such voice in existence that does not go by slow ship and rail but always travels first-class by cable. With Recessional Kipling came to be regarded as a national symbol a one-man embodiment of the Empire"
X Link 2025-12-09T04:01Z 1.2M followers, 8742 engagements
"Kiplings attitudes to Empire reflected his times and by the 1920s came to be regarded as outdated at best fuddy duddy Victoriana at worst the work of a reprehensible bigot. Even as the Raj was still standing George Orwell attacked Kiplings writing as the work of a jingo imperialist who sold out to the British governing class crude vulgar a patriotic music-hall turn morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. Today Kiplings political views seem absurd xenophobic and ultra-racist: he hated Mahatma Gandhi and donated money for General Dyer after he committed the Jallianwallah Bagh"
X Link 2025-12-09T04:09Z 1.2M followers, 9363 engagements
"Why then should anyone read his writing today Because as Orwell also recognised Kipling was a writer of genius and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As Edward Said put it: Kipling would no more have questioned the right of the white European to rule than he would have argued with the Himalayas. Yet Kipling was a major artist and his masterpiece Kim a remarkable complex novel belonging to the worlds greatest literature made the more interesting because Kipling was not a neutral figure in the Anglo-Indian situation but a prominent actor in it It is a work of great aesthetic merit; and"
X Link 2025-12-09T04:12Z 1.2M followers, 16.5K engagements
""New Trump doctrine identifies weak Europes problem: not enough racism. The new US national security strategy represents one of the most profound crises for the Atlantic alliance since 1945""
X Link 2025-12-10T04:11Z 1.2M followers, 24.8K engagements
""Dalrymple will perform alongside India Alba a collective of Indian and Scottish musicians who fuse their traditional backgrounds. Following its debut the piece will evolve and return in an expanded form for a performance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August 2026""
X Link 2025-12-12T13:21Z 1.2M followers, 2405 engagements
"This is a properly shocking document subtly Islamophobic & white nationalist in intent and Europeans need to wake up and realise that as long as MAGA runs America they are on their own. The British in particular need to realise the old alliance with the US is now over"
X Link 2025-12-06T10:26Z 1.2M followers, 148.1K engagements
"New from @EmpirePodUK The final part Part X of our trilogy on arguably the most imperial of imperial writersRudyard Kipling: KIPLING LAUREATE OF EMPIRE"
X Link 2025-12-09T03:37Z 1.2M followers, 51K engagements
"No surprise that this news has been ignored by the entire Western media"
X Link 2025-12-10T09:06Z 1.2M followers, 32.9K engagements
"New from @EmpirePodUK To conclude our Writers on Empire series we do a deep dive into the life of VS Naipaul: AN AREA OF DARKNESS THE MAKING OF VS NAIPAUL With Pulitzer Prize winner Ben Moser"
X Link 2025-12-11T03:49Z 1.2M followers, 73.2K engagements
"Recovering the lost history of Gaza My @NewStatesman review of two remarkable new histories of Gaza by @anneirfan & Jean-Pierre Filiu"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:15Z 1.2M followers, 44.7K engagements
""The world premiere of The Golden Road a collaboration inspired by William Dalrymples book will take place at Glasgow Celtic Connections in January 2026. Dalrymple will perform alongside India Alba.""
X Link 2025-12-12T13:18Z 1.2M followers, 4088 engagements
""New Israeli barrier will slice through precious West Bank farmland. Palestinians who have worked the breadbasket area for generations face being replaced by Israeli settlers""
X Link 2025-12-13T13:39Z 1.2M followers, 31K engagements
"Important & fascinating thread on how early Zionist pioneers saw themselves as colonists and how Weitzman even compared the Jewish Agency which managed land purchases to the East India Company"
X Link 2025-12-11T03:26Z 1.2M followers, 46K engagements
"'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed"
X Link 2025-12-14T19:30Z 1.2M followers, 10.4K engagements