By William Dalrymple
Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India catalog of the 2007 exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, edited by Vidya Dehejia
The Book of Love: The Story of the Kamasutra by James McConnachie
Kamasutra: A New, Complete English Translation of the Sanskrit Text by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar
Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts by David Gordon White
There is nothing new about India being perceived as a place of great and growing wealth: for much of the pre-colonial period, the West was the eager consumer of the spices, silks, and luxuries of the subcontinent, while India was the prosperous supplier. As early as the reign of Nero, there was such a dramatic drain of Western gold to India that Strabo, the Greek geographer and historian, anxiously asks in a letter what can be done to solve the crisis. One South Indian dynasty even sent an embassy to Rome to discuss the problem of the balance of payments.
译文:
印度：性的地位
作者：William Dalrymple
Chola：记录印度南部用于宗教的青铜艺术品
一本记录伦敦的皇家艺术学院进行的2007年展览会的目录，由Vidya Dehejia 编辑
爱之书：关于爱经的故事 由James McConnachie 撰写
爱经：一部全新的，由梵文翻译过来的全英文译本，由Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar 撰写
Yogini的吻：讲述在西亚背景下的“密宗的性爱”
由David Gordon White 撰写
现在关于印度还没什么新鲜的事物像不断增长的巨大财富一样让人觉察和理解：因为在还没沦为殖民地之前的一段时期内，印度还是香料，丝绸和次大陆奢侈品的主要供应者，而西方是这些东西的极大渴求者。早在Nero执政的时候，印度曾有过对西方金子的巨大索求以致于Strabo—希腊的地理和历史学家，在一封信中焦虑地询问如何解决这场灾难。当时的一个西印度王朝甚至还特地派遣使者前往罗马讨论支付平衡的问题。