Author Talk “The Golden Road”
April 30, 2025
Author William Dalrymple presents his latest book, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World, which offers a revolutionary new history of India. Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India’s oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia and gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world. Dalrymple traces the path of Indian intellectual, economic, scientific and spiritual accomplishments spread by traders throughout the ancient world.
A book signing takes place after the talk, with books available for purchase.
Plan Your Visit
- Admission is free with RSVP registration. A standby line is available for any unclaimed seats, which are released five minutes prior to the talk.
- This program takes place in Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building.
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About the Author
William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize–winning White Mughals as well as 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.
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