The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. William Dalrymple. Bloomsbury Publishing. 484 pages.

In the proto-historic period, when the Indus civilisation was flourishing, the Sumerians recorded in detail what they were buying from India. But there are no records of what they were selling to India. The Indus civilisation had set up factory villages in multiple locations where each village specialised in manufacturing a specific set of items, which in turn were shipped to Sumeria from the Gujarat coast.