A review by wayneg
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Great scholarship - almost a 100 pages of footnotes - and a beautifully presented book, almost a work of art from a man who clearly loves the culture, history and people of India. There’s lots to learn here - why do we not appreciate how India was the original home of the numerals he describes as the only universal language  we have for example - but at times I found the case a little too forced, by the time the Christian Spanish take Toledo I thought we had started a long way from the central thesis.