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The golden road : how ancient India transformed the world / William Dalrymple.

Dalrymple, William, (author.).

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"The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilization, 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. In The Golden Road, William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft-forgotten 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."-- Provided by Publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781639734146
  • ISBN: 1639734147
  • Physical Description: 413 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), photographs (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2025.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"First published in Great Britain in 2024" --Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-394) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction : the Indosphere -- A gale of stillness -- India : 'the sink of the world's most precious metals' -- The great king, king of kings, son of God -- The sea of jewels : exploring the great library of Nalanda -- The fifth concubine -- The diaspora of the gods -- In the lands of gold -- 'He who is protected by the sun' -- The treasury of the books of wisdom -- Fruits of the science of numbers.

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Subject:
Civilization, Ancient > Indic influences.
Civilization, Modern > Ancient influences.
Civilization, Modern > Indic influences.
India > Civilization.
India > History > 324 B.C.-1000 A.D.
India > History > 1000-1526.
India > History.
Genre:
Informational works.

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