The Golden Road:How Ancient India Transformed the World : How Ancient India Transformed the world
By
William Dalrymple
Contributor
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Item Type
Book
Serial
16496
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Description
496 pages
ISBN / ISSN No.
978-1408864425
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A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empirepodcast
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For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, 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.
DDC Classification No.
181.4
Accession No.
16496
Current Location
Neeti Bagh
Shelving location
59.A
Status
Available
Category
Philosophy