The significance of India to the history of our world can be gauzed from the fact that India is the only country in the world with One of the Five oceans naned after her .
Those weren't named by Indians but by the European explorers, because Indian peninsular juts out quite a lot into the water and makes a significant land mass and effects the current/weather
A must hear sermon. Sermon on the muziris. Muziris is a place 50 km west of Kochi International airport. The state of Kerala is the place where the concept of Zero originated and the game of chess an ordinary game. It goes to show that in those days the people were highly intellectually advanced in their thought process. It is this thought process and the study of history which should come back to the classrooms world over. Enjoyed the session and very well presented.SUPERB👌
William Dalrymple is incorrect about this Buddha head being the 'westernmost Buddha ever discovered'. Famously, a small bronze statue of the Buddha was found in an excavation of a Viking grave on the Swedish island of Helgo.
25:05 "When Rome goes down, India has an economic crisis and has to look further east..."! Globalization is not a recent phenomenon. It's at least 2000 years old!
Actually India-S.E.A connection is way older but probably Rome's fall increased the importance of this route so i think that's wrong way to describe it.
Great presentation Mr. William and thank you from the bottom of my heart to educate the world about India’s achievements because when I went to UK and visited the museum in London, I felt really bad. It seems they have taken all our arts and proudly display the stolen stuff, at least they should know that the place they stole it had a real impact on the world. The Gujju’s going to Daman and Div and passing out on the floor is a perfect example. When my Gujju friends come over to Mumbai, they do the same.
what? he said plastic surgery in Vedic peroid is an absurd claim? Well he should do little research before making such absurd claim! Here is the starting point: Sushruta -- The the father of plastic surgery (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta). In "Sushruta Samhita" or Sushruta's Compendium (which still survives!) Rishi Sushruta documented in details many plastic surgery procedures.
Though Mr Dalrymple has provided a fascinating account of how Buddhism and Hinduism spread from India in the ancient world, he is unfair in saying that British colonialists undervalued this history. On the contrary, following the founding of the Archaeological Survey of India by Sir Alexander Cunningham in 1861 British archaeologists rediscovered all the Buddhist sites in India and Cunningham's book Ancient Geography of India (1871) covers the contents of the first four chapters of The Golden Road. There is a critique of The Golden Road available on the web.
@@beaulear7202 Though the book was written in 1871, Cunningham started surveying Buddhist sites much earlier. He surveyed the Sarnath site in 1834 and the Sanchi site in 1853. The British government only started to govern India formally after the Mutiny in 1860. It is surely impressive that the British spent nearly a century rediscovering and restoring India's ancient sites and a book about India's Buddhist heritage was written 150 years before Dalrymple's book.
Nop they used these discoveries to put them in their own framework of Catholic Vs Protestant reform to vilify Hinduism Vs Reformist Buddhism and this influenced Indians elites then so much so that they all started doing the same which has continued since & only now this framework is being relooked.
I have heard and listened to most of the blogs trumpeting Dalrymple's account of how great India is and was. But his accounts has a dark side of propaganda for the British rule in India. This account never mentions how India the seat of the first religion (Sanatan) preached by Krishna and was able to lead the Indians to unmatched prosperity and how India produced the first imperial power of the Yadava and created the first human civilization 11,000 years bp. These achievements were recorded in Vishnu Purana by H.H. Wilson in 1840. Implying what a great hypocrite are the British.
decent try but still very preliminary research by Wiliam. There have been already vast literature available on Indian contribution to science/mathematics/astronomy/medicine/technology/economics/trade/commerce/arts/literature... in public domain well accepted in academia. It's clear he is completely unaware of it. E.g. On Plastic surgery -- "Sushruta Samhita". Black pepper used for taste? LOL! No, for goodness sake! for is medical property. It's found inside the Egyptian mummy. He talks about Zero but does not seem to know the history of Calculus and infinite series... Ya it's invented in India over more than a thousand years (Kerala school of Mathematics, Madhava of Sangamagrama), centuries before Newton/Leibniz mysteriously invented out of no where! Ha, I guess for so called European inventions there were no previous contributions!
Mr Dalrymple is always singing for his supper more than he is conducting research. He gives you what you want to hear and you feel better about yourself: enjoy it and be grateful.
It is so easy to tear down and criticize real scholarship and achievement from the safety of social media commentary. Let these commentators write their own books to challenge Dalrymple.
@@jasha9sandhu pre 1947 you had oriental and occidental schools - occidentalism got british state patronage during the freedom struggle and they never turned it off - post 1947 you've had long and self-deluded trajectory of occidentalism.
FYI the conservative Indian right have great distain for the likes of William Dalrymple given his publicised antics in India over the cancellation of several Indian origin authors and their take on the Delhi Riots.
The significance of India to the history of our world can be gauzed from the fact that India is the only country in the world with One of the Five oceans naned after her .
kudos to rishi munis
Those weren't named by Indians but by the European explorers, because Indian peninsular juts out quite a lot into the water and makes a significant land mass and effects the current/weather
Ive never heard much if this before. A delightful man and able to be engaging. Thank you 🥸🏴
Start from Wonder that was India by A L Basham {some material is outdated but is still a gr8 resource to highlight India's role in global history}.
Lots of fascinating connections. Much to ponder and very worthwhile. Many thanks.
A must hear sermon.
Sermon on the muziris.
Muziris is a place 50 km west of Kochi International airport.
The state of Kerala is the place where the concept of Zero originated and the game of chess an ordinary game.
It goes to show that in those days the people were highly intellectually advanced in their thought process.
It is this thought process and the study of history which should come back to the classrooms world over.
Enjoyed the session and very well presented.SUPERB👌
What an interesting, informative lecture! I am so glad I stumbled into it. Thank you, William Dalrymple, for sparking my thirst for this subject.
As the Indian minister of parliament Dr. Sudhansu Trivai said -- if u dig enough u will find everybody's father was Sham Lal (common Hindu man) :)
William Dalrymple is incorrect about this Buddha head being the 'westernmost Buddha ever discovered'. Famously, a small bronze statue of the Buddha was found in an excavation of a Viking grave on the Swedish island of Helgo.
On its peak golden age INDIA 🇮🇳 was 47% of global GDP
25:05 "When Rome goes down, India has an economic crisis and has to look further east..."! Globalization is not a recent phenomenon. It's at least 2000 years old!
Actually India-S.E.A connection is way older but probably Rome's fall increased the importance of this route so i think that's wrong way to describe it.
Wah... that was enlightenment. Social media has made us uncover facts rather than reading history through the conqueres...
Dalrymple pronounces Mahabalipuram as Malappuram, which is an entirely different town in Kerala.
WD on top form! Subscribed.
Love me some Willie D!
Great presentation Mr. William and thank you from the bottom of my heart to educate the world about India’s achievements because when I went to UK and visited the museum in London, I felt really bad. It seems they have taken all our arts and proudly display the stolen stuff, at least they should know that the place they stole it had a real impact on the world. The Gujju’s going to Daman and Div and passing out on the floor is a perfect example. When my Gujju friends come over to Mumbai, they do the same.
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what? he said plastic surgery in Vedic peroid is an absurd claim? Well he should do little research before making such absurd claim! Here is the starting point: Sushruta -- The the father of plastic surgery (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta). In "Sushruta Samhita" or Sushruta's Compendium (which still survives!) Rishi Sushruta documented in details many plastic surgery procedures.
long live islamic India.
White Mughal is my absolute favourite book ❤
Engaging and important - perhaps an explanation for early Ethiopic and Indian Christianity
Though Mr Dalrymple has provided a fascinating account of how Buddhism and Hinduism spread from India in the ancient world, he is unfair in saying that British colonialists undervalued this history. On the contrary, following the founding of the Archaeological Survey of India by Sir Alexander Cunningham in 1861 British archaeologists rediscovered all the Buddhist sites in India and Cunningham's book Ancient Geography of India (1871) covers the contents of the first four chapters of The Golden Road. There is a critique of The Golden Road available on the web.
1871 was relatively late into Btitish involvement in India
@@beaulear7202 Though the book was written in 1871, Cunningham started surveying Buddhist sites much earlier. He surveyed the Sarnath site in 1834 and the Sanchi site in 1853. The British government only started to govern India formally after the Mutiny in 1860. It is surely impressive that the British spent nearly a century rediscovering and restoring India's ancient sites and a book about India's Buddhist heritage was written 150 years before Dalrymple's book.
Nop they used these discoveries to put them in their own framework of Catholic Vs Protestant reform to vilify Hinduism Vs Reformist Buddhism and this influenced Indians elites then so much so that they all started doing the same which has continued since & only now this framework is being relooked.
I have heard and listened to most of the blogs trumpeting Dalrymple's account of how great India is and was. But his accounts has a dark side of propaganda for the British rule in India. This account never mentions how India the seat of the first religion (Sanatan) preached by Krishna and was able to lead the Indians to unmatched prosperity and how India produced the first imperial power of the Yadava and created the first human civilization 11,000 years bp. These achievements were recorded in Vishnu Purana by H.H. Wilson in 1840. Implying what a great hypocrite are the British.
Yeah mate, people like you are the reason.Indians get mocked and insulted everywhere online.
needs ozempic.. clean eye glasses
decent try but still very preliminary research by Wiliam. There have been already vast literature available on Indian contribution to science/mathematics/astronomy/medicine/technology/economics/trade/commerce/arts/literature... in public domain well accepted in academia. It's clear he is completely unaware of it. E.g. On Plastic surgery -- "Sushruta Samhita". Black pepper used for taste? LOL! No, for goodness sake! for is medical property. It's found inside the Egyptian mummy. He talks about Zero but does not seem to know the history of Calculus and infinite series... Ya it's invented in India over more than a thousand years (Kerala school of Mathematics, Madhava of Sangamagrama), centuries before Newton/Leibniz mysteriously invented out of no where! Ha, I guess for so called European inventions there were no previous contributions!
Mr Dalrymple is always singing for his supper more than he is conducting research. He gives you what you want to hear and you feel better about yourself: enjoy it and be grateful.
It is so easy to tear down and criticize real scholarship and achievement from the safety of social media commentary. Let these commentators write their own books to challenge Dalrymple.
post 1947 British have put in a lot of effort into undervaluing Indian history
Even pre 1947 as well
@@jasha9sandhu pre 1947 you had oriental and occidental schools - occidentalism got british state patronage during the freedom struggle and they never turned it off - post 1947 you've had long and self-deluded trajectory of occidentalism.
Seems like an objective view
Remember bro…without Buddhism…India is nothing!
FYI the conservative Indian right have great distain for the likes of William Dalrymple given his publicised antics in India over the cancellation of several Indian origin authors and their take on the Delhi Riots.