“If a country like India – that sees itself as an ancient and strong country, and as a model of democracy – puts Nepali territories in its map and hangs the map in parliament, it cannot be ...

However, a controversial mural showing a map of ancient India was unveiled during the inauguration on 28 May, sparking a row with India’s neighbours, alarmed by its reference to the idea of ...

“If a country like India that sees itself as an ancient and strong country and as a model of democracy puts Nepali territories in its map and hangs the map in parliament, it cannot be called ...

The award-winning historian William Dalrymple narrates a version in The Golden Road, an outstanding new account of ancient India’s cultural conquest of the globe. This “Sufi teaching story ...

(Xi Jinping’s reaction was not recorded.) William Dalrymple does not deploy that Sanskrit phrase in “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World.” But his audacious book’s aim ...