Join them in November to discuss The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple (Bloomsbury, 2025).

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Room 204
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)

Kleio: a History Book Club meets to discuss acclaimed and trending recent titles by distinguished authors on diverse topics from the pages of global history—from the ancient world through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Join us as we delve into an exciting new read each month.

Join us in November to discuss The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple (Bloomsbury, 2025). Request it here.

About the book (from the NYPL catalog):  

"A soaring history of India's underrecognized role in producing the world as we know it. For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilization, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics, and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. In The Golden Road, William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world. From the largest Hindu temple in the world at Angkor Wat to the Buddhism of China, from the trade that helped fund the Roman Empire to the creation of the numerals we use today (including zero), India transformed the culture and technology of its ancient world -- and our world today as we know it."