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The Golden Road - How Ancient India Transformed The World (Paperback) Loot Price: R496
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The Golden Road - How Ancient India Transformed The World (Paperback)

William Dalrymple

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Bestselling historian William Dalrymple reinstates India as the great intellectual and philosophical superpower of Ancient Asia, tracing the cultural flow of its religion, science and mathematics.

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, 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 oft­forgotten 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.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury
Release date: October 2024
Authors: William Dalrymple
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-6442-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > General
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > General
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LSN: 1-4088-6442-8
Barcode: 9781408864425

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