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Before the age of colonialism, Europeans saw India very differently from the familiar racist and Orientalist stereotypes of the Raj. Far from being a benighted land of poverty and famine, India was seen as a land of wealth and riches and plenty, a center of philosophy and astronomy, science and mathematics, learning and wisdom. Historian, translator and broadcaster, Tom Holland talks with author and fellow historian William Dalrymple about the very different Western views of India held from Herodotus and Ashoka to the age of Aryabhatta and the Guptas.
