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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
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"The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" explores the profound impact of ancient India on global civilization. It highlights India's contributions to philosophy, science, mathematics, medicine, trade, and culture, which influenced societies across Asia, the Middle East, and beyond. From the invention of zero and early surgical techniques to spiritual traditions like Buddhism and Hinduism, ancient India played a vital role in shaping human progress. The book delves into India's thriving trade networks, artistic heritage, and intellectual advancements that connected it to distant lands, leaving a lasting legacy on world history
For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilization, 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.
In The Golden Road, William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world. From the largest Hindu temple in the world at Angkor Wat to the Buddhism of China, from the trade that helped fund the Roman Empire to the creation of the numerals we use today (including zero), India transformed the culture and technology of its ancient world – and our world today as we know it.
