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    Bangalore-based historian, Dr. Vikram Sampath is the author of ten acclaimed books on Indian history, including Splendours of Royal Mysore: The Untold Story of the Wodeyars, Voice of the Veena: S. Balachander, Women of the Records and Indian Classical Music and the Gramophone. His two-volume biography Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past and Savarkar: A Contested Legacy and  his latest books, Bravehearts of Bharat: Vignettes from Indian History, and Waiting for Shiva: Unearthing the Truth of Kashi's Gyan Vapi have all gone on to become national bestsellers. His latest book Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore's Interregnum (1760-1799) has been creating waves even before it hit the stands and in just a month of it's publication, went on for a third reprint!
    In 2021, Vikram was elected a fellow of the prestigious Royal Historical Society. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi’s first Yuva Puraskar in English literature and the ARSC International Award for excellence in historical research in New York for his book My Name Is Gauhar Jaan: The Life and Times of a Musician. The book has even been adapted for a play, Gauhar, by Lillette Dubey. He was among four writers and artists selected as writers-in-residence at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in 2015. Vikram has a doctorate in history and music from the University of Queensland, Australia, and was a senior research fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. He was also a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network,  Eisenhower Global Fellow and a visiting fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. Currently, he is an adjunct senior fellow at Monash University, Australia. He is the Founder of the Archive of Indian Music,  the Foundation for Indian Historical and Cultural Research (FIHCR) that fosters new scholarship in Indian history, and NAAV AI, a tech startup that he established with Sandeep Singh Chauhan that translates content from English to Indian languages

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