Historian, author and podcaster William Dalrymple believes it was India's Golden Road - not China's Silk Road - that transformed the world. He tells Kim Hill about his latest book and his own family history in the Empire.Scottish historian and journalist William Dalrymple is renown for his books, television series and podcast Empire - mostly about India, a country he’s been in love with since he was a young man.In his latest, The Golden Road, he argues that it was India and not China which transformed the world between 2050BC and 1300AD.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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