The how ancient India transformed the world Dalrymple, William creator author aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut text bibliography Informational works Documents d'information nyu 2025 2024 monographic eng

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413 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (chiefly color), maps 25 cm "A soaring history of India's underrecognized role in producing the world as we know it. 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"--Jacket flap. Introduction : The Indosphere -- A gale of stillness -- India : 'the sink of the world's most precious metals' -- The great king, king of kings, son of God -- The sea of jewels : exploring the great library of Nalanda -- The fifth concubine -- The diaspora of the gods -- In the lands of gold -- 'He who is protected by the sun' -- The treasury of the Books of wisdom -- Fruits of the science of numbers. William Dalrymple. Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-394) and index. a-ii--- Civilization, Ancient Indic influences Civilization, Modern Ancient influences Civilization, Modern Indic influences Civilisation moderne et contemporaine Influence ancienne Civilisation ancienne Influence de l'Inde Kulturkontakt India Civilization India History 324 B.C.-1000 A.D India History 1000-1526 India History Inde Histoire Inde Civilisation Inde Histoire 324 av. J.-C.-1000 Inde Histoire 1000-1526 Südostasien Naher Osten Indien India Civilization India History DS423 .D157 2025 934 954 9781639734146 1639734147 9781408864432 1408864436 9781639737284 1639737286 2026343989 St Martins Pr, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy Us Hwy 15, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (212)6745151 TOH 241121 20260825143229.0 in00024535796 eng