Historian William Dalrymple, speaking at the India Today Conclave, challenged the widely accepted belief that China dominated ancient global trade. He argued that India, not China, was the key ...

Why are there no elephants in China? And why have large numbers of ... the oldest and most famous treatise on statecraft from ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient ... over India, but you do find an Indian philosophy - Buddhism - taking over China ...

while still much smaller than China’s, is expected to grow faster in the coming years. Like Xi, Modi has spoken of India’s ambition to reclaim its ancient glory and return to its status as ...

By evoking ancient India-China synergy and emphasising dialogue, he articulated a vision of “healthy competition” and mutual growth. While some see this as conciliatory, it is better ...

It is the latest front in a cultural war over India’s ancient past. The country’s ... Mesopotamia and China. One of the earliest, it flourished on the banks of the Indus and Saraswati Rivers ...

His new book is "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed ... philosophy taking over India, but you do find an Indian philosophy - Buddhism - taking over China and other Indian ideas of ...