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By (author) Dalrymple William
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Bestselling historian William Dalrymple reinstates India as the greatsuperpower of Ancient Asia.
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR
A SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEAR
A 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
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An outstanding new account …
The most compelling retelling we have had for generations
‘ Financial Times
India 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.
Praise for William Dalrymple and The Anarchy
‘A superb historian with a visceral understanding of India’ The Times
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Magnificently readable, deeply researched and richly atmospheric’ Francis Wheen,
Mail on Sunday
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With a
mind-boggling mastery of sources, Dalrymple weaves a
thrilling tale of India’s cultural hegemony, not forgetting its invention of mathematics and related disciplines still in use today
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A terrific story, told with tremendous brio
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An outstanding new account of ancient India’s cultural conquest of the globe … The Golden Road is
an absorbingly literary history, a tale of tales … Xi Jinping’s China is currently much better at promoting itself as the heart of Asia. But it may ultimately prove no match for India’s primordial gift for myth and narrative, and this is what Dalrymple has so successfully channelled into The Golden Road. The plot, especially for South Asians, may be an old one, but it’s
the most compelling retelling we have had for generations
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Dazzling … The Golden Road, teeming with his own evocative s of far-flung cave and forest temples, sculptures and wall paintings, is
not just a historical study but also a love letter – to a lost syncretic world of interacting and evolving religious creeds and intellectual movements, when Indian ideas transformed the world
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In his
masterful new work, The Golden Road (Bloomsbury, April 29), historian William Dalrymple argues that India has both the potential and the historical track record to catch up with its former peer to the northeast . . .
The Golden Road fills an important gap in our understanding of the intra-Asian relations that predated the arrival of European colonisers.
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A multifarious and engaging narrative, which, like Indian trade, takes us in many directions,
peppered with lively stories and charismatic individuals
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A richly woven, highly readable account of the highlights of India’s outsized influence on the world. It is also
a celebration of cosmopolitan
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