Speaking at the launch William Dalrymple read from his book The Golden Road quoting the words of Hwui-li, the biographer of the Chinese monk Xuanzang about Nalanda --'there were thousands of Buddhist ...

How It Changed the World' explores the profound influence of Nalanda Mahavihara on global education and culture. Launched at ...

William Dalrymple's enthusiasm for the 18th Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), starting January 30, is contagious as the ...

Historian William Dalrymple's The Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 is a magisterial new look at the First Afghan War, in which British and East India Company troops invaded ...

But now, thanks to celebrated historian and author William Dalrymple's latest book titled The Golden Road, we have a name for the route that resulted in the diffusion of religion, culture ...

And yet, most of the world and even most Indians err in its origin. India-based Scottish historian and author William Dalrymple believes that it is because India has never been great at promoting ...

So much of The Golden Road, not necessarily in fact, but in sentiment, is about the feeling that many Indians grew up with: the idea that ancient India was a kind of “golden bird” and the ...

The Roman emperors created a world that seems modern but contains unspeakable horrors, as new books by Mary Beard and Tom Holland reveal. The elephant untethered. Globalisation has been good for gods ...