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The Golden Road

By William Dalrymple

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The Golden Road

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For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence from other civilisations. But this isn't the complete story. A full millennium earlier, India's major cultural exports - religion, art, technology, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, language and literature - were shaping civilisations, traveling as far as Afghanistan in the West and Japan in the East. Out of India came pioneering merchants, astronomers and astrologers, scientists and mathematicians, surgeons and sculptors, as well as the holy men, monks and missionaries. In The Golden Road, legendary historian William Dalrymple highlights India's oft-forgotten position as a crucial economic and civilisational hub at the heart of the ancient and early mediaeval history of Eurasia. From Angkor to Ayutthaya, The Golden Road traces the cultural flow of Indian religions, languages, artistic and architectural forms throughout the world. In this ground-breaking tome, Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to reinstate India as the great intellectual and philosophical superpower of ancient Asia.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
482
Release Date:
2024-09-05
Publication Date:
2024-09-05
Publisher:
Bloomsbury UK
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1408864428
ISBN13:
9781408864425
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
720 g
Height:
154 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
42 cm
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