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By (author) Dalrymple William

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FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST – A REVOLUTIONARY NEW HISTORY OF THE DIFFUSION OF INDIAN IDEAS
‘A master storyteller’ Sunday TimesIndia is the forgotten heart of the ancient worldFor a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific.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. 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.
Praise for William Dalrymple and The Anarchy
‘A superb historian with a visceral understanding of India’ The Times
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Magnificently readable, deeply researched and richly atmospheric’ Francis Wheen,
Mail on Sunday

Biographical note:
William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He has also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the FPA Media Awards, and been awarded five honorary doctorates. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting fellowships at Princeton, Brown and All Souls, University of Oxford. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker and the Guardian. In 2018 he was presented with the prestigious President’s Medal by the British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. He is the co-host of chart-topping podcast Empire with Anita Anand. William lives with his wife and three children on a goat farm outside Delhi.

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Bestselling historian William Dalrymple reinstates India as the greatsuperpower of Ancient Asia.

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A NEW APPROACH TO INDIA’S HISTORY: William Dalrymple draws from his lifetime of research to reposition India’s history as a cultural focal point of ancient Eurasia

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EXPERT RESEARCH:
Dalrymple is the bestselling and award-winning author of history with legions of fans who will be more than excited to read his newest history book; he is the previous winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Hemingway Prize and shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize

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DEDICATED AUDIENCE: Dalrymple’s approach to history will help shift the lens from the Silk Roads to India’s role in disseminating culture in the past, appealing to audiences who are interested in new perspectives on global history and the readers of his past books such as The Anarchy (TCM ~93k), The White Mughals (TCM ~174k) and The Last Mughal (TCM ~64k)