As we emerge from Macaulay’s legacy, we are still adrift ... have put his statue in the canopy at India Gate! PREMIUM We should respect all our languages, for there is perhaps no other country ...

Aramaic (Middle East - Mesopotamia): Originating around 1200 BCE in ancient Mesopotamia ... contexts today. Tamil (India): Tamil is one of the oldest languages and has been in use for more ...

Yet their legacy persists ... similarities among languages from far-flung places. But it wasn’t until 1786, when William Jones, a British judge stationed in India, proposed a link among Latin ...

The award-winning historian William Dalrymple narrates a version in The Golden Road, an outstanding new account of ancient India’s cultural ... translated into myriad languages and recorded ...

India is home to a vast number ... shells that were used for divination in ancient China. Chinese is not a single language, but a group of related languages that share a common writing system.

One of the big contentions of popular historian William Dalrymple’s latest book “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” which came out in the United States a few weeks ...