The Golden Road
How Ancient India Transformed the World
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The Golden Road
Letto da:
William Dalrymple
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William Dalrymple
The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia’s under-recognized 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.©2024 William Dalrymple (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Dazzling . . . Not just a historical study but also a love letter.
[Dalrymple is] one of India’s finest popular chroniclers . . . his great achievement is in assembling the disparate fragments of early India’s engagements across the continent into a delightfully readable whole.
An outstanding new account . . . The most compelling retelling we have had for generations.
Audacious . . . Mr. Dalrymple sets out to correct what he believes is a narrative wrong—the playing down of India and Indians in Western accounts of history . . . [he] must get credit for flying the flag of the land that has been lucky enough to become his obsession. (Tunku Varadarajan)
William Dalrymple's The Golden Road puts ancient and early medieval India at the heart of an empire of ideas, trade, science, religion and culture. In this masterful work, Dalrymple . . . aims to correct "India's often forgotten position" as a cultural and economic superpower that, in his telling, transformed Asia and much of the world. (Nishant Dahiya)
In his masterful new work, . . . 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.
Dalrymple’s writing is always animated, enlivened by color plates that allow readers to readily envision the sights evoked here. A passionate tribute to the glories—and influence—of ancient India.
[A] magisterial and energetic account . . . This first-rate work is a must-read for any history lover.
A masterpiece of its own, ancient yet thoroughly modern in its themes of globalization, cultural diffusion and soft power, as paradigm-shifting in its Indocentricity as anything I’ve read in popular history.
This enchanting work of ancient history offers an important backdrop to understanding contemporary India.… The book might be considered a riposte to both right-wing and left-wing historiography in India; right-wing historians make fantastic claims that cloak India’s real and substantial achievements, while those on the left prioritize social history in a way that displaces intellectual achievement. Dalrymple finds another India in the past: open to trade, tolerant, scientific, creative, and universalist.
Historian Dalrymple’s comprehensive and meticulously researched examination of ancient India reveals momentous and ubiquitous influences ... When considered holistically, as Dalrymple does so well, it’s clear that India’s impacts cannot be understated and have shaped the world for thousands of years.
Yet another instant classic . . . The writing is engaging and narratively cohesive, elucidating Dalrymple’s subject as clearly for lay readers as for specialists.
Marvelous.
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