William Dalrymple on The Golden Road

William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s great historians and the bestselling author of many books on India. His latest, ‘The Golden Road’, explains India’s often forgotten role in shaping the ancient world.

For more than 1500 years, India exported a vast empire of ideas to the rest of the world. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific.

Inspired by discovering an abundance of Indian historical influences on a visit to Cambodia, William Dalrymple set out on a journey to investigate 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. From the largest Hindu temple in the world at Angkor Wat to the Buddhism of China, from the trade that helped fund the Roman Empire to the creation of the numerals we use today (including zero), India transformed the culture and technology of its ancient world - and our world today as we know it.

Join William Dalrymple for a fascinating event as he explains how, throughout history, India has helped lay the foundations of the world as we know it.

William Dalrymple on The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

Thursday 28th August 7.00pm

Cost: £6/£8

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