William Dalrymple The Golden Road Book Review: Ancient India, Global Trade and Buddhism
The HinduPublished : Nov 11, 2024 21:51 IST - 5 MINS READ William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road features a great amount of sea. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World By William Dalrymple Bloomsbury Publishing Pages: 608 Price: Rs.999 There are several elements that stood out for me in the book. The Golden Road makes an important contribution in reminding us of our Buddhist past, and of just how much the pull India held for the ancient world came from Buddhism. “History,” he writes, “shows that India has always been at its most creative and influential when it is at its most connected, plural, hybrid, open, and receptive to new ideas… when it represents the cohabitation, not a clash of civilisations.” Marshalling great swathes of historical knowledge, The Golden Road makes this case most compellingly.
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