The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World William Dalrymple
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World William Dalrymple
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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World William Dalrymple
A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas which is richly woven and highly readable.
India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world. In the millennium and a half from 250BC to 1200AD, Indian art, religion, 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.
Like ancient Greece, ancient India came up with a set of profound answers to the big questions about what the world is, how it operates, why we are here and how we should live our lives.
Today, over half the world's population lives in areas where Indian religions and culture are, or once were, dominant.
The Golden Road reveals how Indian ideas transformed the world, crossing political borders to influence everything from the statues of Indian ascetics in Roman seaports to Buddhism in Japan, and the observatories of Baghdad to crucial mathematical concepts such as "zero", and even the very numbers we use to this day. Drawing from a lifetime of scholarship, William Dalrymple argues that India is one of the two great intellectual and philosophical superpowers of Asia.
Product Details:
ISBN: 9781408864425
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pub Date: 5 September 2024
Page Extent: 496
Format: Trade Paperback
RRP: $44.99
