The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs 999
Pages: 608
The Wonder That Was India would have been the most appropriate name for William Dalrymple’s rich and enriching book had it not been the title of A L Basham’s classic work. All serious students growing up in the 1960s and 1970s and wanting to learn about ancient India read Basham’s book. Dalrymple takes up some of the themes covered by Basham and adds to them greater depth, more themes and new evidence. He complements all this by an analysis of how the