The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence from other civilisations. But this isn't the complete story. A full millennium earlier, India's major c…

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