Arthur Dudney was born in the United States but has been visiting in Delhi for much of his
life. Over the years, he has become a Dilli-wallah at heart, if not by birth. He is delighted when
being an Urdu-speaking foreigner with a love for Indian culture means being mistaken for a
Kashmiri, Pathan, or Anglo–Indian. He has had the good fortune to be able to combine his
academic career as a historian with writing for non-scholars about a city he loves. He received
his doctorate from the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at
Columbia University in October 2013, and is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford
University.