01837nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801110007608200150018710000240020224500850022626000470031130000190035836500110037752011280038865000200151665000310153665000410156770000230160820261011151827.0261011b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781408864425  a: Feel Books Pvt. Ltd.b: 4381/4, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002c: D/CRB26-27/943d: 01/10/2026  a934.02 DAL  aDalrymple, William.  aThe Golden Roadb: How Ancient India Transformed the World.c/ William Dalrymple  aNew Delhib: Bloomsbury Publishingc, 2026  a482p.b: 24cm.  b559.30  aFor most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence from other civilisations. But this isn't the complete story. A full millennium earlier, India's major cultural exports – religion, art, technology, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, language and literature – were shaping civilisations, travelling as far as Afghanistan in the West and Japan in the East. Out of India came pioneering merchants, astronomers and astrologers, scientists and mathematicians, surgeons and sculptors, as well as holy men, monks and missionaries.

In The Golden Road, legendary historian William Dalrymple highlights India's oft-forgotten position as a crucial economic and civilisational hub at the heart of the ancient and early medieval history of Eurasia. From Angkor to Ayutthaya, The Golden Road traces the cultural flow of Indian religions, languages, artistic and architectural forms and mathematics throughout the world. In this groundbreaking tome, Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to reinstate India as the great intellectual and philosophical superpower of ancient Asia.  aAncient History  aCultural diffusion - India  aIndia Commerce - Indian Ocean Region  aWilliam Dalrymple.