William Dalrymple’s tour de force avoids all the pit-falls of superpower competition, identity politics, and over-simplification, but nonetheless places Indian cultural and economic achievements at the centre of the changing worlds of the West and Asia from c.250 bce to 1200 ce. The Golden Road: How Ancient India transformed the world explains how and why Indian influence in China reached a high ... (read more)
Marika Vicziany
Marika Vicziany is Professor Emerita at Monash University and the co-author of Kashgar: Oasis City on China’s Old Silk Road (Frances Lincoln, London, 2008) and The Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang, Western China: Crossroads of the Silk Roads (Oxford, Archaeopress, 2019). She also writes about India’s past and present.