The Golden Road
how ancient India transformed the world
- ISBN: 9781408864432
- Editorial: Bloomsbury Academic
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 21 cm
- Nº Pág.: 496
- Idiomas: Inglés
India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world.
In the millennium and a half from c. 250 BC to 1200 AD, Indian art, religion, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world - a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific.
Here, 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 culture and technology of not only its ancient world, but of the world as we know it today.
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
