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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[@mahaut1329]

Totally engaging, bringing India and Rome together. And Herodotus who is never to be left out

[@AshokGupta-oq6hs]

Yes,they saw it as a land of spices and riches.
Why else will they embark on search of sea routes to India, eastward,westward,and northward,arduous and perilous sea journeys after falloff Constantinople and subsequent embargo of sea trade between India and Europe by ottoman rulers of Anatolia/Turikye.

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[@corinaijac4381]

Did they find out who has cut the oak from the ,,robin hood" movie, at a border of an empire as well as a continent, speaking about violence, putting fire unther a....?
Corina Miriam Georgeta IJAC