The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World

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FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-HOST OF THE CHART TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST – A REVOLUTIONARY NEW HISTORY OF THE DIFFUSION OF INDIAN IDEAS ‘A master storyteller’ Sunday Times India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India’s oft­forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world. From the largest Hindu temple in the world at Angkor Wat to the Buddhism of China, from the trade that helped fund the Roman Empire to the creation of the numerals we use today (including zero), India transformed the culture and technology of its ancient world – and our world today as we know it. Praise for William Dalrymple and The Anarchy ‘A superb historian with a visceral understanding of India’ The Times ‘Magnificently readable, deeply researched and richly atmospheric’ Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing (5 September 2024); Bloomsbury Publishing
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 608 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 140886441X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1408864418
Reading age ‏ : ‎ Customer suggested age: 14 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 450 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.32 x 3.12 x 23.42 cm
Net Quantity ‏ : ‎ 1 Count
Importer ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing
Packer ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing
Generic Name ‏ : ‎ Book
Best Sellers Rank: #592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Ancient History (Books) #3 in Asian History (Books) #4 in Indian History (Books)
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