EPISODE · Jun 18, 2025 · 49 MIN
The Book Club: William Dalrymple
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the historian William Dalrymple, whose bestselling account of ancient India’s cultural and economic influence, The Golden Road, is newly out in paperback. He tells me why the ‘Silk Road’ is a myth, how Arabic numerals are really Indian – and how he responds to being Narendra Modi’s new favourite author. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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