01304nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100003400041245003500075260003200110300003400142520098600176773003201162260512b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aReviewed by Iman Kumar Mitra   aAncient  INDIA’S soft power   aBiblio: A Review of Books    a30(1-3), Jan-Mar, 2025: p.8-9  aThe golden road: How ancient India transformed the world by William Dalrymple Bloomsbury INDIA. 2024 482pp. Rs. 999(HB) ISBN 978-1-4088-6441-8. 
                                                           
                                                    ABSTRACT
The singularity of India as an idea that flowed from an almost unrated antiquity to the present day started to field the nihilist imaginary in the present day started to field the nationalist imaginary in the late 19th century. It became such a frenzied celebration in the early 20th century that even professional historian, Loke RC. Majumdar believed in fictional spree of the colon satin of South East Asia by Ancient Indian kingdoms.Dalrymple says that he does not endorse this view of colon satin by military force. His focus lies in the long history of India’s cultural influence as a ‘soft power, thousands of years before the term was coined across a region he calls an “Indosphere”. –Reproduced 
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