
- Publisher:
- BLOOMSBURY
- Year of publication:
- 2024
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4088-6442-5
- Pages:
- 482
THE GOLDEN ROAD
HOW ANCIENT INDIA TRANSFORMED THE WORLD
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
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].