The Golden Road

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

William Dalrymple (1965) es un reconocido historiador y escritor escocés, miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y de la Royal Asiatic Society y autor de obras tan relevantes como El último Mogol, La ciudad de los djinns, White Mughals, El retorno de un rey y La Anarquía. La Compañía de las Indias Orientales y el expolio de la India. Estudió en el Trinity College de Cambridge, donde desempeñó los cargos de History Exhibitioner y Senior History Scholar.