# India

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## [India — The Sink of the World’s Gold](https://piratehoard.com/t/india-the-sink-of-the-world-s-gold/695)

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An Around the World field entry. For two thousand years the gold of the world flowed into India and did not flow out — into its temples, its treasuries, and its earth — until the subcontinent became, in the phrase of the…

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## [About the India category](https://piratehoard.com/t/about-the-india-category/649)

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For two thousand years the gold of the world flowed into India and did not flow out — into its temples, its treasuries, and its earth — until the subcontinent became, in the phrase of the ancients, the sink of the world’…