India - the land that gave humanity the zero, the game of chess, and the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun - once ...

Innovations such as chess, the concept of zero, and the idea that the Earth moved around the Sun all came from India, not Greece or Egypt, author William Dalrymple has written in his new book.

As historian William Dalrymple puts it, the story of civilisation itself cannot be told without India, a land that once ...