Explore the untold story of India's global impact with The Golden Road by William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple draws from his lifetime of research to reposition India’s history as a cultural focal point of ancient Eurasia.
From art and religion to math and technology, Indian ideas have shaped the world for 1,500 years. William unveils the "Golden Road" of Indian influence stretching from the Red Sea to the Pacific.
Explore the untold story of India's global impact, and pre-book a copy today!
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[@anuradhainamdar8967]

Dear Mr.Darlymple I immensely enjoy your books, read nearly all of them, recently finished " White Mughals " and " The Anarchy".Your historical narratives are especially readable. Waiting for" The golden road" eagerly.

[@500suren]

Thank god the antiquity of India or Bharat's spiritual, cultural, philosophical, scientific civilization predominantly Hindu civilization is now being recognized by many which is why up until the 10th century CE Bharat i.e., India was the single biggest contributor to world GDP way ahead of China who came in second all because India was a melting pot of cultures, religion, education, enterprise and above all an extremely tolerant and environmentally conscious society stretching from present day Afghanistan all the way to the tiny state of Kerala including probably present day Myanmar to the East. Will India do a Bharat again? If it does not get invaded or colonized one can bet India will be a Bharat again because the DNA remains the same.

[@Badlighter]

The glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was Rome, the eternity that is India. Dipali Jeewa

[@silverback3633]

Anything else Iron Age started from India as well as the spice age made the world much smaller.

[@Codetutor-DemystifyCoding]

Have pre ordered this and waiting like crazy since I heard it on his Empires podcast!!

[@alexdouglasnewton]

ecstatic with anticipation! please oh please tour the book in australia, brisbane if i am pushed on location!!!

[@MichaelLoda]

Can't wait for this book, it already sounds like a masterpiece (yet another one by William)

[@guharup]

Simp

[@MichaelLoda]

@@guharup Indeed, of course I am! Your point...?

[@howardcurtis9138]

I am looking forward to the publication of your book! I’m 80 now, but ever since running across works of Yogananda, Vivekananda, Inayat Khan, Mahatma Gandhi and others as a young man, I have been a great admirer of India’s past. It breaks my heart to see how low India has sunk morally. It seems to me they have become a nation of telephone scammers. Never a day passes that I don’t get one or two calls from people with Indian accents and American names who claim to be “Medicare Advisers”. or “your local television service”, or “your utility company”. It took me a while to figure out what was going on, but I still don’t understand why the country has sunk so low that they are actually attacking our senior population and trying to scam usout of money. Does it have something to do with Modi’s modus operandi?

[@yj9032]

Indians elders are the the largest victims of indian scammers

[@zzzzz653]

Modi has nothing to do with it. Poverty and lack of morals is the cause of such unscrupulous behaviour.

[@NiteshKumar-ue1yp]

India was morally superior because there were some great thinkers, but now it is morally decayed because there are some really bad people. Do you see the flaw in this line of reasoning? Scammers don't just scam foreigners, they scam everyone, including people of their own country.

[@TheVishnu8]

Lodon riots are Kier Starmer's modus operandi?

[@TheVishnu8]

Sorry! I meant London.

[@chandrashekharmenon3709]

cant wait!!

[@Radhaugo108]

Yes!!!!!

[@jauhariakash]

WoW ! Looking forward.

[@madhugupta7708]

🎉🎉🎉

[@dilipsharma3878]

I have already ordered one. Pl send it ASAP

[@tinguzz]

I have read anarchy . . . I will read "The Golden Road" for sure.

[@ateeqahmad]

Pre-ordered! Can't wait to read it!

[@babusastry]

Please do not forget the road of nonViolence got generated in India.

[@ujwalmokashi6702]

He looks like RRR movie villain. This guy is no less than villain. I was this guy peddling the narative of muslim genocide in delhi riots in 2020 and all other leftist propaganda crap.

[@romeshchopra02]

Fascinating, there is a longer and more conclusive article on this upturned idea in the Guardian. I shall forward that to separately. It is as amazing. We are now at the top of the world once again.

[@FunnyIntelliInnocentVilageKid]

Do you write about brahmins being against "foreign" travel as one would loose "caste" .

[@_UNISTAR_]

Brahmin, etc are not castes, they're social classes. "Varna (class)" & "jaati (caste)" are 2 different things.

[@FunnyIntelliInnocentVilageKid]

@@_UNISTAR_ Varna and jati are both terms used to describe social divisions in India, but they have different origins, meanings, and applications: Varna This term refers to the original social division of the Vedic people into four groups: Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (nobles), Vaishyas (commoners or workers), and Shudras (servants). The word "varna" comes from the word "vri", which means "the choice to choose one's occupation". Jati This term refers to a caste group among Hindus, and is derived from the Sanskrit word "jāta" which means "born" or "brought into existence". Jatis are typically associated with an occupation, geography, or tribe. The official Hindu view considers jatis to be an aberration of varna.

[@FunnyIntelliInnocentVilageKid]

@@_UNISTAR_ In the Hindu caste system, the Brahmin varna is a social class or caste that is considered to be the highest of the four varnas, or social classes: Brahmin The highest varna, Brahmins were traditionally priests, teachers, or Vedic scholars. They were expected to learn and educate the Vedas.

[@_UNISTAR_]

@@FunnyIntelliInnocentVilageKid U're just elaborating on what I said. What was the point of telling me stuff I already knew, lol? I did say they are different.

[@_UNISTAR_]

@@FunnyIntelliInnocentVilageKid In reply to ur 2nd comment, NO, Brahmin is NOT a caste. You're probably not Indian if u don't even understand these basics, bruh. U can't just say it was a class OR caste: It was ONLY a class, with many castes inside it that were predominantly Brahmin, generation after generation. But, BOTH are different. For ex: For a guy named "Raju Yadav" , Yadav would be his caste, and his profession would denote his Varna. These r BASICS, and u're tryna prove me wrong on them, lmao. Have some humility and trust that an Indian knows more about his culture than u.

[@razraza3183]

India was the richest country for most of human history. Apocalyptic Islamic and British invaders destroyed India.

[@biggpicture2930]

But india was created of 32 kingdoms in 1947 , out of 600+ as discovered by the East India Company

[@sumeshsivsankar548]

Are you sure? I was having a heat debate with my wife yesterday regarding this topic. I am still in a belief that there was Bharat prior 1947. She was arguing vehemently saying post independence Bharat came. I would be happy to know more about this topic from you.

[@rb5177]

@@sumeshsivsankar548 The Vishnu Purana mentions: Uttaraṃ yat samudrasya himādreścaiva dakṣiṇam. varṣaṃ tad bhārataṃ nāma bhāratī yatra santatiḥ. The country that lies north of the ocean and south of the snowy mountains is called Bhāratam there dwell the descendants of Bharata. -Vishnu Purana (2,3,1)

[@rb5177]

Archaeological studies have shown that Indian civilization that goes back to at least 8000 B.C. DNA studies from the Rakhigarhi excavations in Haryana, which is the largest site of the Harappan Civilization located almost in the middle of the Saraswati river basin in the Indus Valley Civilization.

[@_UNISTAR_]

@@rb5177 There is also the submerged Dwarka, from 12000 yrs ago, just lying in the ocean, still waiting to be researched upon.

[@RohitChouhan-dj7se]

FOOT SOLDIER OF IMPERIALISM

[@statickk14]

Get lost dude with your baggage