The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World Florence & The Machine Each painting is reproduced in

Each painting is reproduced in large format

smaller groups and solo performers took centre stage

We stand at the beginning of a new era

They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other-worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another

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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World Florence & The Machine Each painting is reproduced inIndia is the forgotten heart of the ancient world. For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight