The Golden Road

How Ancient India Transformed the World

von William Dalrymple

481 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEARA revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empire podcast'Richly woven, highly readable ... Written with passion and verve' Spectator'Dazzling ... Not just a historical study but also a love letter' Guardian'An outstanding new account ... The most compelling retelling we have had for generations' Financial TimesIndia 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 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 culture and technology of not only its ancient world, but of the world as we know it today.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Asiatische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781408864432
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.06.2025
• Größe: 199 x 129 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK