David Gilmour

Historian and biographer Sir David Gilmour looks at the lives of ordinary people over three centuries of British-Indian history and the world they created.

Gilmour writes about people who have never been written about before – soldiers, officials, businessmen, doctors, missionaries, planters, engineers and many others and their families. He explains the impact of their work and shows how they interacted with native populations. Together they represent a social history stretching from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I and into the reign of Elizabeth II.

Gilmour is one of Britain’s leading historical writers and biographers. He won the Duff Cooper prize for his life of George Curzon, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for his life of Rudyard Kipling and the Marsh Biography Award for his life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa.