William Dalrymple - How Ancient India Transformed The World

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Richmond Theatre

Wed 4 Sep 2024

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Join the historian and co-host of the chart-topping podcast Empire, William Dalrymple, as he shares the rarely told story of India’s role as a cultural and scientific superpower of the ancient world.

Richmond Theatre

Wed 4 Sep 2024

Richmond Theatre, The Green, Richmond, TW9 1QJ

This show has an interval

Wed at 19:30

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One of Britain’s greatest living historians, Dalrymple is known across the globe for his ability to bring the extraordinary history of the Indian subcontinent to life, whether through award-winning, bestselling books like Return of a King and The Anarchy, or his hit podcast, Empire.

Live on stage, he’ll tell the story of how, from 250BC to 1200AD, India transformed the world: exporting religion, art, science, medicine, and language along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific, creating a vast and profoundly important empire of ideas.

Like ancient Greece, ancient India came up with a set of profound answers to the big questions about what the world is, how it operates, why we are here and how we should live our lives. Out of India came holy men, monks and missionaries as well as pioneering merchants and artists, astronomers, healers, and scientists.

Indian ideas crossed political borders and influenced everything they touched, from the statues in Roman seaports to the Buddhism of Japan, the poetry of China to the mathematics of Baghdad.

Don’t miss this chance to hear the story of how India became the great intellectual and philosophical superpower of ancient Asia.

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Richmond Theatre

Richmond Theatre, The Green, Richmond, TW9 1QJ

Richmond (District Line), Overground (SW Trains)

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One of the oldest surviving theatres designed by iconic architect Frank Matcham, Richmond Theatre has sat in the heart of the local community since 1899.

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Richmond Theatre

Wed 4 Sep 2024

Richmond Theatre, The Green, Richmond, TW9 1QJ

This show has an interval

Wed at 19:30

For group bookings of 10 or more:

Submit a request online

Or call 020 7206 1174

Join ATG+, the UK's best live entertainment membership

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