About the Book: The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the
award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empire
podcast 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 Indias
oftforgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia.