FROM THE AWARD-WINNING BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST - A
REVOLUTIONARY NEW HISTORY OF INDIA ?A master storyteller' Sunday Times India is the forgotten
heart of the ancient world 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. 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 Japan 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. ?At the forefront of the new wave of
popular history' Observer ?A superb historian with a visceral understanding of India' The Times
