大幹道

大幹道（印地語：ग्रैंड ट्रंक रोड；英語：Grand Trunk Road）連接了中亞地區和印度次大陸，是亞洲最古老的主要幹道之一UNESCO, Caravanserais along the Grand Trunk Road in Pakistan 。它全長3670千米，從孟加拉國的科克斯巴扎爾到阿富汗的喀布爾，經過了吉大港、達卡、加爾各答、德里和拉合爾。孔雀王朝的旃陀羅笈多於前3世紀修築了縱貫古代北印度（Uttarapatha）的高速公路Vadime Elisseeff, p. 159-162, The Silk Roads: Highways of Culture and Commerce Farooqui Salma Ahmed, p. 234, A Comprehensive History of Medieval India: From Twelfth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century ，其後繼者阿育王也對該道路進行了修築。這條道路在英國殖民的1833至1860年被大規模翻修David Arnold (historian);
Science, technology, and medicine in colonial India (New Cambr hist India v.III.5)
Cambridge University Press, 2000, 234 pages p. 106 。

幾個世紀以來，這條公路一直是該地區的主要貿易路線之一，為旅行和郵政通訊提供了便利。大主幹道仍在當今的印度次大陸上用於運輸，該地區的部分道路已經拓寬並納入了國家高速公路系統。

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 外部連結 

 Farooque, Abdul Khair Muhammad (1977), Roads and Communications in Mughal India.  Delhi: Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli.
 Weller, Anthony (1997), Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road: Calcutta to Khyber.  Marlowe & Company.
 Kipling, Rudyard (1901), Kim.  Considered one of Kipling's finest works, it is set mostly along the Grand Trunk Road. Free e-texts are available, for instance here.




 National Highway Authority of India
 National Highway Authority of Pakistan
 NPR: Along the Grand Trunk Road

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