The significance of India to the history of our world can be gauzed from the fact that India is the only country in the world with One of the Five oceans naned after her .
Great presentation Mr. William and thank you from the bottom of my heart to educate the world about India’s achievements because when I went to UK and visited the museum in London, I felt really bad. It seems they have taken all our arts and proudly display the stolen stuff, at least they should know that the place they stole it had a real impact on the world. The Gujju’s going to Daman and Div and passing out on the floor is a perfect example. When my Gujju friends come over to Mumbai, they do the same.
25:05 "When Rome goes down, India has an economic crisis and has to look further east..."! Globalization is not a recent phenomenon. It's at least 2000 years old!
Actually India-S.E.A connection is way older but probably Rome's fall increased the importance of this route so i think that's wrong way to describe it.
William Dalrymple is incorrect about this Buddha head being the 'westernmost Buddha ever discovered'. Famously, a small bronze statue of the Buddha was found in an excavation of a Viking grave on the Swedish island of Helgo.
Though Mr Dalrymple has provided a fascinating account of how Buddhism and Hinduism spread from India in the ancient world, he is unfair in saying that British colonialists undervalued this history. On the contrary, following the founding of the Archaeological Survey of India by Sir Alexander Cunningham in 1861 British archaeologists rediscovered all the Buddhist sites in India and Cunningham's book Ancient Geography of India (1871) covers the contents of the first four chapters of The Golden Road. There is a critique of The Golden Road available on the web.
@@beaulear7202 Though the book was written in 1871, Cunningham started surveying Buddhist sites much earlier. He surveyed the Sarnath site in 1834 and the Sanchi site in 1853. The British government only started to govern India formally after the Mutiny in 1860. It is surely impressive that the British spent nearly a century rediscovering and restoring India's ancient sites and a book about India's Buddhist heritage was written 150 years before Dalrymple's book.
Nop they used these discoveries to put them in their own framework of Catholic Vs Protestant reform to vilify Hinduism Vs Reformist Buddhism and this influenced Indians elites then so much so that they all started doing the same which has continued since & only now this framework is being relooked.
@@jasha9sandhu pre 1947 you had oriental and occidental schools - occidentalism got british state patronage during the freedom struggle and they never turned it off - post 1947 you've had long and self-deluded trajectory of occidentalism.
FYI the conservative Indian right have great distain for the likes of William Dalrymple given his publicised antics in India over the cancellation of several Indian origin authors and their take on the Delhi Riots.
On its peak golden age INDIA 🇮🇳 was 47% of global GDP
The significance of India to the history of our world can be gauzed from the fact that India is the only country in the world with One of the Five oceans naned after her .
Wah... that was enlightenment. Social media has made us uncover facts rather than reading history through the conqueres...
What an interesting, informative lecture! I am so glad I stumbled into it. Thank you, William Dalrymple, for sparking my thirst for this subject.
Great presentation Mr. William and thank you from the bottom of my heart to educate the world about India’s achievements because when I went to UK and visited the museum in London, I felt really bad. It seems they have taken all our arts and proudly display the stolen stuff, at least they should know that the place they stole it had a real impact on the world. The Gujju’s going to Daman and Div and passing out on the floor is a perfect example. When my Gujju friends come over to Mumbai, they do the same.
25:05 "When Rome goes down, India has an economic crisis and has to look further east..."! Globalization is not a recent phenomenon. It's at least 2000 years old!
Actually India-S.E.A connection is way older but probably Rome's fall increased the importance of this route so i think that's wrong way to describe it.
White Mughal is my absolute favourite book ❤
William Dalrymple is incorrect about this Buddha head being the 'westernmost Buddha ever discovered'. Famously, a small bronze statue of the Buddha was found in an excavation of a Viking grave on the Swedish island of Helgo.
Dalrymple pronounces Mahabalipuram as Malappuram, which is an entirely different town in Kerala.
WD on top form! Subscribed.
Ive never heard much if this before. A delightful man and able to be engaging. Thank you 🥸🏴
Start from Wonder that was India by A L Basham {some material is outdated but is still a gr8 resource to highlight India's role in global history}.
Love me some Willie D!
Though Mr Dalrymple has provided a fascinating account of how Buddhism and Hinduism spread from India in the ancient world, he is unfair in saying that British colonialists undervalued this history. On the contrary, following the founding of the Archaeological Survey of India by Sir Alexander Cunningham in 1861 British archaeologists rediscovered all the Buddhist sites in India and Cunningham's book Ancient Geography of India (1871) covers the contents of the first four chapters of The Golden Road. There is a critique of The Golden Road available on the web.
1871 was relatively late into Btitish involvement in India
@@beaulear7202 Though the book was written in 1871, Cunningham started surveying Buddhist sites much earlier. He surveyed the Sarnath site in 1834 and the Sanchi site in 1853. The British government only started to govern India formally after the Mutiny in 1860. It is surely impressive that the British spent nearly a century rediscovering and restoring India's ancient sites and a book about India's Buddhist heritage was written 150 years before Dalrymple's book.
Nop they used these discoveries to put them in their own framework of Catholic Vs Protestant reform to vilify Hinduism Vs Reformist Buddhism and this influenced Indians elites then so much so that they all started doing the same which has continued since & only now this framework is being relooked.
post 1947 British have put in a lot of effort into undervaluing Indian history
Even pre 1947 as well
@@jasha9sandhu pre 1947 you had oriental and occidental schools - occidentalism got british state patronage during the freedom struggle and they never turned it off - post 1947 you've had long and self-deluded trajectory of occidentalism.
Seems like an objective view
FYI the conservative Indian right have great distain for the likes of William Dalrymple given his publicised antics in India over the cancellation of several Indian origin authors and their take on the Delhi Riots.