THE GOLDEN ROAD - William Dalrymple (Audiobook)(Nonfiction) torrent

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple (Audiobook)
Year First Published: 2024 (Print), 2025 (Audiobook release)
Category/Genre: Nonfiction, History, World History, Cultural History

The Golden Road is William Dalrymple’s sweeping, magisterial history of India’s transformative role in shaping the ancient world. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarship, Dalrymple reveals how, for over 1,500 years, India was not a passive recipient of outside influences but a dynamic exporter of ideas, culture, religion, science, and technology across Eurasia.

The book traces the journey of Indian civilization along what Dalrymple calls the “Golden Road”—a vast network of trade and intellectual exchange stretching from the Red Sea to the Pacific. Through vivid storytelling, Dalrymple demonstrates how Indian art, mathematics (including the invention of zero), astronomy, music, dance, literature, and mythology profoundly shaped the cultures of Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and even the Roman Empire. He explores how Buddhism spread from India to China and Japan, how Indian numerals and scientific concepts traveled westward, and how Indian architecture and religious ideas influenced the construction of wonders like Angkor Wat.