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William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple CBE FRAS FRSL FRGS FRSE FRHistS (born 20 March 1965) is an India-based Scottish historian and art historian, as well as a curator, broadcaster and critic. [1] He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the world's largest writers' festival, the annual Jaipur Literature Festival .
Multi-award-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple’s latest book is published on 5 September – a revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific.
2 days ago · William Dalrymple’s ‘The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World’, is a delightful odyssey into the interaction of four worlds, i.e. the Chinese, the Indian, the Islamic and the ...
William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India’s oftforgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world.
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2 days ago · William Dalrymple’s latest offering, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World, shines as a richly narrated exploration of India’s contributions to the world, both through its intellectual legacy and its expansive trade networks.Dalrymple has long been revered for his talent as a historian and storyteller, especially in his works about India.
Sep 8, 2024 · The Golden Road is an absorbingly literary history, a tale of tales, and, in Dalrymple’s telling, it was most notably through the dissemination of stories — including ideas and doctrines given ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Historian William Dalrymple argues that India's influence spread far and wide before the Silk Road. He calls this zone of influence the "Indosphere" where Indian culture, art, and science traveled from Afghanistan to Japan.
William Dalrymple is a British historian and writer based in Delhi. Born in Scotland in 1965, Dalrymple was educated at Ampleforth and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was first History Exhibitioner then Senior History Scholar.
William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world.
Sep 20, 2024 · The Golden Road by William Dalrymple (Bloomsbury) is out now. He tours Australia in October with Fane Productions. It has been 40 years since the prize-winning historian William Dalrymple found ...
