How India made the ancient world
William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road places India, not China or Europe, as the global wellspring of learning and power.
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Shruti Kapila
Shruti Kapila is professor of history and politics at the University of Cambridge and author of Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age (Princeton University Press, 2021).
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