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THE GOLDEN ROAD

THE GOLDEN ROAD

HOW ANCIENT INDIA TRANSFORMED THE WORLD

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

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Publisher:
BLOOMSBURY
Year of publication:
2024
ISBN:
978-1-4088-6442-5
Pages:
482
23,75 €
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FROM THE CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST India was the forgotten heart of the ancient world For a millennium and a half, from about 250 BC to 1200 AD, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas, an 'Indosphere' where its influence was predominant. During this period, the rest of Asia was the willing recipie[Bokinfo].

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