The Indian subcontinent didn’t just sit between important trade routes. In fact, it powered them. Despite how the Silk Road is mainly associated with China and Rome, substantially more Roman coins have been found in India than in China. This vast network, which William Dalrymple has called the Golden Road , linked the Mediterranean to Asia through goods and gold. The Muziris Papyrus, which was an ancient trade document written in Greek, records contracts between Roman and Ind