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Celebrated writer and historian William Dalrymple unveils The Golden Road, exploring India's pivotal role as the heart of ancient Eurasia. Traversing through Indian art, ideas, and innovations, Dalrymple takes us on a journey through ancient times and describes how Indian ideas helped form the world as we know it today.
William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. His latest book is The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Dr. Sureshkumar Muthukumaran is a lecturer in the History Department at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean and co-author of Ancient India: Living Traditions.
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Celebrated writer and historian William Dalrymple unveils The Golden Road, exploring India's pivotal role as the heart of ancient Eurasia. Traversing through Indian art, ideas, and innovations, Dalrymple takes us on a journey through ancient times and describes how Indian ideas helped form the world as we know it today.
William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. His latest book is The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Dr. Sureshkumar Muthukumaran is a lecturer in the History Department at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean and co-author of Ancient India: Living Traditions.
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