THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES <\/i>BESTSELLER<\/u><\/b>
A Waterstones <\/i>and TIMES <\/i>HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR<\/u><\/b>
A SPECTATOR <\/i>and History Today <\/i>BOOK OF THE YEAR<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n
A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping <\/b>Empire<\/b> <\/i>podcast<\/b><\/p>\n
‘Richly woven, highly readable … Written with passion and verve’ Spectator<\/i><\/b>
‘Dazzling … Not just a historical study but also a love letter’ Guardian<\/i><\/b>
‘<\/b>An outstanding new account …<\/b> The most compelling retelling we have had for generations<\/b>‘ Financial Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world.<\/i><\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bestselling historian William Dalrymple reinstates India as the great superpower of Ancient Asia.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[75],"product_tag":[27507,290,27508],"class_list":{"0":"post-108147","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-history","6":"product_tag-east-asian-indian-philosophy","7":"product_tag-history","8":"product_tag-religious-art","9":"pa_book_author-dalrymple-william","10":"pa_cover-paperback","11":"pa_dewey-934-edition23","12":"pa_imprint-bloomsbury","13":"pa_language-english","14":"pa_pages-8940","15":"pa_publisher-bloomsbury","16":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","18":"first","19":"instock","20":"taxable","21":"shipping-taxable","22":"purchasable","23":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n