TY - BOOK AU - Dalrymple, William TI - The golden road: How ancient India transformed the world SN - 9781408864418 U1 - 954.02 23 PY - 2024/// CY - Ireland PB - Bloomsbury Publishing KW - History of India (Ancient period, up to 647 CE) KW - History of India and South Asia N1 - The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST A REVOLUTIONARY NEW HISTORY OF INDIA 'A master storyteller Sunday Times India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, 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. William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship ER -