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Show Notes
My guest on this week’s <em>Book Club</em> podcast is the historian William Dalrymple, whose bestselling account of ancient India’s cultural and economic influence, <em>The Golden Road</em>, is newly out in paperback. He tells me why the ‘Silk Road’ is a myth, how Arabic numerals are really Indian – and how he responds to being Narendra Modi’s new favourite author.
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