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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple Rugs a young man in hisThe Sunday Times Bestselling Author India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world. 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. Like ancient Greece, ancient India came up with a set of profound answers to the big questions about what the world is,