ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR The epic story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of...

The Golden Road by William Dalrymple is an instant Sunday Times bestseller that offers a revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas. In this compelling history, William Dalrymple draws on a lifetime of scholarship to explore India's significant yet often overlooked role...