01646nam a22001817a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100120008308200210009510000220011624500590013826000410019730000270023836500530026552011270031865000190144520250805162449.0240923b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781408864418  cAL  aEnglish  223a954.01bDALR  aWilliam Dalrymple  aGolden Roadb: How Ancient India Transformed the World  aLondonbBloomsbury Publishing c2024  a482pbHBc24.5x15.7 cm  a3774b₹799.00c₹d₹999.00e20%f12-09-2024  aFor 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, travelling 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 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 medieval history of Eurasia. From Angkor to Ayutthaya, The Golden Road traces the cultural flow of Indian religions, languages, artistic and architectural forms and mathematics throughout the world. In this groundbreaking tome, Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to reinstate India as the great intellectual and philosophical superpower of ancient Asia.  aModern History