Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Celebrated writer and historian William Dalrymple discusses his latest book, the British Academy Book Prize for 2025 shortlisted, The Golden Road, exploring India's pivotal role as the heart of ancient Eurasia spreading culture, mathematics, and religion via maritime routes westward to Spain and eastward to the Pacific. With Alberto Garín, renowned scholar and historian, Dalrymple traverses through Indian art, ideas, and innovations of the ancient world, describing how Indian ideas helped form the world as we know it today.

Alberto Garín is the author of several books, notably An Irreverent History of Art and, as co-author, of Luther, Calvin and Trent: The Reformation That Never Was and Against the French Revolution, published to great acclaim by HarperCollins.

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