Interview: "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" with William Dalrymple

Historian and broadcaster William Dalrymple (“The Company Quartet“, “Empire“) joins the podcast to discuss his latest book “The Golden Road“. A survey covering from antiquity to the early medieval period, the book seeks to address India’s far-reaching (and often forgotten) influence across the entirety of Eurasia, from tracking the spread of religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, investigating the growing evidence of Indo-Roman trade, and even down to the invention of “Arabic” numerals based on Indian scripts and mathematics.

Episode Notes:
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William Dalrymple:
williamdalrymple.com
bloomsbury.com/us/golden-road-9781639734146
x.com/DalrympleWill

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