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An Evening with William Dalrymple at Godolphin Performing Arts Centre

Tuesday 24th September 2024
19:00 at Godolphin Performing Arts Centre, Milford Hill, Salisbury, SP1 2RA

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (Hardback)

Join us for an evening with multiple award-winning historian William Dalrymple as he shares his newest book 'The Golden Road' with us.

'In 'The Golden Road' William Dalrymple gives a name to the spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world; crossing political borders and influencing everything they touched, from statues of Indian ascetics erected in Roman seaports to Cambodian friezes of the Mahabharata, from the Buddhism of Japan to the Hindu rituals of Bali, from the echoes of Sanskrit poems found in Chinese poetry to the discovery of the algorithm and the observatories of Baghdad.

Over half the world’s population lives in areas where Indian religions and culture are, or once were, dominant. Meanwhile India’s intellectual influence travelled far to the West, giving us not only crucial mathematical concepts such as zero, but also the very numbers we use to this day: arguably the nearest thing humanity has to a universal language. Drawing from a lifetime of scholarship, Dalrymple argues that India is the great intellectual and philosophical superpower of ancient Asia'

Please note: this event is taking place at Godolphin School Performing Arts Centre.

Godolphin Performing Arts Centre, Milford Hill, Salisbury, SP1 2RA

Tuesday 24th September 2024
19:00

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