[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, the british, bank, 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 +86% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::928219752/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX -XXXX% - X Months XXXXX +112% - X Year XXXXX -XXXX% ### Followers: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::928219752/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -X% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -X% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::928219752/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [india](/topic/india) 8.22%, [the british](/topic/the-british) #180, [bank](/topic/bank) 2.74%, [the world](/topic/the-world) 2.74%, [history](/topic/history) 2.74%, [mindset](/topic/mindset) 1.37%, [new england](/topic/new-england) 1.37%, [flow](/topic/flow) 1.37%, [jewel](/topic/jewel) 1.37%, [realise](/topic/realise) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@empirepoduk](/creator/undefined) [@jaipurlitfest](/creator/undefined) [@tweeteranita](/creator/undefined) [@nfergus](/creator/undefined) [@timwig](/creator/undefined) [@michaelgove](/creator/undefined) [@rumeliobserver](/creator/undefined) [@tweetbix](/creator/undefined) [@indiatoday](/creator/undefined) [@bbcnews](/creator/undefined) [@bjdyke](/creator/undefined) [@hartoft](/creator/undefined) [@nntaleb](/creator/undefined) [@45johnferguson](/creator/undefined) [@liberationscot](/creator/undefined) [@jang_bodoque](/creator/undefined) [@ferbermoshe](/creator/undefined) [@sm_123](/creator/undefined) [@guardian](/creator/undefined) [@cfmmuk](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours ""Indians running global businesses" says William Dalrymple amid Macaulay mindset debate. via @indiatoday" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1991937397945463165) 2025-11-21T18:30Z 1.2M followers, 310.3K engagements "New from @EmpirePodUK Part Two of our Kipling miniseries WRITING THE JUNGLE BOOK" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1996422640219934869) 2025-12-04T03:33Z 1.2M followers, 64.4K 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 "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, 147.3K 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, 759.6K 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, 526K 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, 78.7K 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, 38.4K engagements ""Its not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon Israels onslaught continues. Broken ceasefires bombing ground incursions and mounting deaths: Israeli imperialism is now expanding across the region"" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1995454322394497384) 2025-12-01T11:25Z 1.2M followers, 100.3K 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, 7409 engagements "When was cricket first played in Australia What was the origin of the Ashes" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1994993219306979714) 2025-11-30T04:53Z 1.2M followers, 9415 engagements "Crumble on the Koh-i-Noor @tweeter_anita we need to update the book" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1997381420524978209) 2025-12-06T19:03Z 1.2M followers, 11.5K engagements "New series from @EmpirePodUK THE HISTORY OF GAZA" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1968665041281966495) 2025-09-18T13:14Z 1.2M followers, 1.3M engagements "Which coach of a national cricket team insists his squad listen to @EmpirePodUK as part of their training" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1994994051725308025) 2025-11-30T04:57Z 1.2M followers, 10.5K engagements "Rudyard Kipling was at once the greatest English writer of fiction set in India- no one else wrote with greater intimacy and feeling- and also at the same time the man Orwell accurately attacked as a "jingo imperialist who sold out to the British governing class crude vulgar a patriotic music-hall turn morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1997520029156565242) 2025-12-07T04:14Z 1.2M followers, 13.2K engagements "We've given all the goats 🐐 new bells for Christmas 🎄" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1997569564742447401) 2025-12-07T07:31Z 1.2M followers, 11.5K engagements "On India's past and the East India Company" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1997928180380996034) 2025-12-08T07:16Z 1.2M followers, 12.4K engagements "Quite right- just watched One Battle After Another and its genuinely funny and thrilling and a proper delight. While newcomer Chase Infiniti is Zadie Smith reborn as a movie star "Golden Globe nominations: One Battle After Another leads the charge"" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1998121911587578345) 2025-12-08T20:06Z 1.2M followers, 11K engagements "Kipling try to spread imperialist fervour across the English-speaking world but his life was turned upside down twice as grief struck his family. After the death of his son Jack in the First World War this staunchly pro-Empire establishment figure full of love for Britannia became in many ways broken by guilt & disillusionment with the jingoism he had helped whip up. This was intensified by the fact that Kipling had used his influence to secure his short-sighted son a commission in the Irish Guards after he was initially rejected. He came to harbour a deep distrust and anger towards the" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1998242238879654396) 2025-12-09T04:04Z 1.2M followers, XXX 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, 7965 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, 14.7K 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, 16.3K engagements "So this was a bit of a surprise: just summoned to meet Rahul Dravid who says he's a big fan of @EmpirePodUK & has got his whole squad listening to @tweeter_anita & I blagging on about imperial history Who knew (And what a modest charming & charismatic gent he is.) #starstruck" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1639150207471620097) 2023-03-24T06:20Z 1.2M followers, 480.2K engagements "These two men look like bit-part actors from a Dickens adaptation- perhaps the lawyers from Bleak House. In fact they were the world's most successful ever drug-runners. Discover the world of Jardine & Matheson as our @EmpirePodUK miniseries VICTORIAN NARCOS reaches its climax" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1918092599870812226) 2025-05-01T23:58Z 1.2M followers, 22.2K engagements "Since you ask there were generations of Dalrymples in India from Stair Dalrymple who died in the Black Hole in 1757 to my father who was in the army at Partiton in 1947. My great great uncle James deciphered the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India and translated the Ashoka Pillars. (And if you'd ever like to take your boys onto the Bass just let me know.)" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1992051686798741779) 2025-11-22T02:05Z 1.2M followers, 204.4K engagements ""Denmark sets up night watch to monitor Trump after Greenland row. US presidents threat to seize territory prompts intelligence briefings reminiscent of Game of Thrones patrol"" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1994107509725122841) 2025-11-27T18:14Z 1.2M followers, 16.6K engagements "How did Kipling go from a spoiled child in India who spoke Hindustani as his first language and had to reminded to speak English to his parents to living in an abusive foster home in Portsmouth which he called The House of Desolation- the basis for his brilliant short story Baba Blacksheep Why was Kipling such a man of contradiction what he himself called a man with two sides to his head" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1995734031485616415) 2025-12-02T05:57Z 1.2M followers, 14.8K engagements ""Israeli settlers attack and rob Italian and Canadian volunteers in West Bank. Group beaten in early hours of morning in village where they volunteered to help protect Palestinians from settler violence"" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1995742926513864968) 2025-12-02T06:32Z 1.2M followers, 29.5K 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, 14.5K engagements "What inspired Kipling to write his two most famous works: The Jungle Book and Kim William is joined once again by Andrew Lycett author of the brilliant biography Rudyard Kipling to discuss Kiplings rise to fame and how although he left India his writing became evermore obsessed with the subcontinent" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1996428841666154636) 2025-12-04T03:58Z 1.2M followers, 13.7K engagements "Band Binn storm Delhi on the Rocky Road to Dublin" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1997001411964686449) 2025-12-05T17:53Z 1.2M followers, 4839 engagements
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@DalrympleWill William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple posts on X about india, the british, bank, 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 topic influence india 8.22%, the british #180, bank 2.74%, the world 2.74%, history 2.74%, mindset 1.37%, new england 1.37%, flow 1.37%, jewel 1.37%, realise XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @empirepoduk @jaipurlitfest @tweeteranita @nfergus @timwig @michaelgove @rumeliobserver @tweetbix @indiatoday @bbcnews @bjdyke @hartoft @nntaleb @45johnferguson @liberationscot @jang_bodoque @ferbermoshe @sm_123 @guardian @cfmmuk
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
""Indians running global businesses" says William Dalrymple amid Macaulay mindset debate. via @indiatoday"
X Link 2025-11-21T18:30Z 1.2M followers, 310.3K engagements
"New from @EmpirePodUK Part Two of our Kipling miniseries WRITING THE JUNGLE BOOK"
X Link 2025-12-04T03:33Z 1.2M followers, 64.4K 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
"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, 147.3K 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, 759.6K 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, 526K 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, 78.7K 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, 38.4K engagements
""Its not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon Israels onslaught continues. Broken ceasefires bombing ground incursions and mounting deaths: Israeli imperialism is now expanding across the region""
X Link 2025-12-01T11:25Z 1.2M followers, 100.3K 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, 7409 engagements
"When was cricket first played in Australia What was the origin of the Ashes"
X Link 2025-11-30T04:53Z 1.2M followers, 9415 engagements
"Crumble on the Koh-i-Noor @tweeter_anita we need to update the book"
X Link 2025-12-06T19:03Z 1.2M followers, 11.5K engagements
"New series from @EmpirePodUK THE HISTORY OF GAZA"
X Link 2025-09-18T13:14Z 1.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Which coach of a national cricket team insists his squad listen to @EmpirePodUK as part of their training"
X Link 2025-11-30T04:57Z 1.2M followers, 10.5K engagements
"Rudyard Kipling was at once the greatest English writer of fiction set in India- no one else wrote with greater intimacy and feeling- and also at the same time the man Orwell accurately attacked as a "jingo imperialist who sold out to the British governing class crude vulgar a patriotic music-hall turn morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting"
X Link 2025-12-07T04:14Z 1.2M followers, 13.2K engagements
"We've given all the goats 🐐 new bells for Christmas 🎄"
X Link 2025-12-07T07:31Z 1.2M followers, 11.5K engagements
"On India's past and the East India Company"
X Link 2025-12-08T07:16Z 1.2M followers, 12.4K engagements
"Quite right- just watched One Battle After Another and its genuinely funny and thrilling and a proper delight. While newcomer Chase Infiniti is Zadie Smith reborn as a movie star "Golden Globe nominations: One Battle After Another leads the charge""
X Link 2025-12-08T20:06Z 1.2M followers, 11K engagements
"Kipling try to spread imperialist fervour across the English-speaking world but his life was turned upside down twice as grief struck his family. After the death of his son Jack in the First World War this staunchly pro-Empire establishment figure full of love for Britannia became in many ways broken by guilt & disillusionment with the jingoism he had helped whip up. This was intensified by the fact that Kipling had used his influence to secure his short-sighted son a commission in the Irish Guards after he was initially rejected. He came to harbour a deep distrust and anger towards the"
X Link 2025-12-09T04:04Z 1.2M followers, XXX 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, 7965 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, 14.7K 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, 16.3K engagements
"So this was a bit of a surprise: just summoned to meet Rahul Dravid who says he's a big fan of @EmpirePodUK & has got his whole squad listening to @tweeter_anita & I blagging on about imperial history Who knew (And what a modest charming & charismatic gent he is.) #starstruck"
X Link 2023-03-24T06:20Z 1.2M followers, 480.2K engagements
"These two men look like bit-part actors from a Dickens adaptation- perhaps the lawyers from Bleak House. In fact they were the world's most successful ever drug-runners. Discover the world of Jardine & Matheson as our @EmpirePodUK miniseries VICTORIAN NARCOS reaches its climax"
X Link 2025-05-01T23:58Z 1.2M followers, 22.2K engagements
"Since you ask there were generations of Dalrymples in India from Stair Dalrymple who died in the Black Hole in 1757 to my father who was in the army at Partiton in 1947. My great great uncle James deciphered the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India and translated the Ashoka Pillars. (And if you'd ever like to take your boys onto the Bass just let me know.)"
X Link 2025-11-22T02:05Z 1.2M followers, 204.4K engagements
""Denmark sets up night watch to monitor Trump after Greenland row. US presidents threat to seize territory prompts intelligence briefings reminiscent of Game of Thrones patrol""
X Link 2025-11-27T18:14Z 1.2M followers, 16.6K engagements
"How did Kipling go from a spoiled child in India who spoke Hindustani as his first language and had to reminded to speak English to his parents to living in an abusive foster home in Portsmouth which he called The House of Desolation- the basis for his brilliant short story Baba Blacksheep Why was Kipling such a man of contradiction what he himself called a man with two sides to his head"
X Link 2025-12-02T05:57Z 1.2M followers, 14.8K engagements
""Israeli settlers attack and rob Italian and Canadian volunteers in West Bank. Group beaten in early hours of morning in village where they volunteered to help protect Palestinians from settler violence""
X Link 2025-12-02T06:32Z 1.2M followers, 29.5K 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, 14.5K engagements
"What inspired Kipling to write his two most famous works: The Jungle Book and Kim William is joined once again by Andrew Lycett author of the brilliant biography Rudyard Kipling to discuss Kiplings rise to fame and how although he left India his writing became evermore obsessed with the subcontinent"
X Link 2025-12-04T03:58Z 1.2M followers, 13.7K engagements
"Band Binn storm Delhi on the Rocky Road to Dublin"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:53Z 1.2M followers, 4839 engagements