From Dionysus to Vasco da Gama: How Europens Saw India before the Age of Exploration?

From Dionysus to Vasco da Gama: How Europeans saw India before the Age of Colonialism
Tom Holland in conversation with William Dalrymple | Jaipur Literature Festival 2023

Before the age of colonialism, Europeans saw India very differently from the familiar racist and Orientalist stereotypes of the Raj. Far from being a benighted land of poverty and famine, India was seen as a land of wealth and riches and plenty, a centre of philosophy and astronomy, science and mathematics, learning and wisdom. Classicist Tom Holland and historian William Dalrymple talk together about the very different Western views of India held from Herodotus and Ashoka to the age of Aryabhatta and the Guptas.


Jaipur Literature Festival 2023

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