The Story of India

  • Premiered: Aug 2007
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 3
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Unknown
  • Documentary History

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Season 1
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Beginnings (50,000 BCE - 1000 BCE)
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Air date
Aug 24, 2007
Michael Wood journeys through the subcontinent, tracing the incredible richness and diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. Through ancient manuscripts and oral tales Michael .. show full overview
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The Power of Ideas (500 BCE - 200 BCE)
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Aug 31, 2007
Michael Wood’s epic series moves on to the revolutionary years after 500BC - the Age of the Buddha. Travelling by rail to the ancient cities of the Ganges plain, by army convoy through .. show full overview
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Spice Routes & Silk Roads (200 BCE - 300 CE)
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Sep 07, 2007
In this episode Michael Wood traces India in the days of the Roman Empire. In Kerala the spice trade opened India to the world, whilst gold and silk bazaars in the ancient city of .. show full overview
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Ages of Gold (300 CE - 1000 CE)
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Sep 14, 2007
Michael Wood seeks out the achievements of the country's golden age, discovering how India discovered zero, calculated the circumference of the Earth and wrote the world’s first sex .. show full overview
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The Meeting of Two Oceans (1000 CE - 1700 CE)
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Sep 21, 2007
This episode charts the coming of Islam to the subcontinent and one of the greatest ages of world civilisation: the Mughals. Michael Wood visits Sufi shrines in Old Delhi, desert .. show full overview
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Freedom (1700 CE - 2009 CE)
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Sep 28, 2007
This episode examines the British Raj and India's struggle for freedom. Michael Wood reveals how in South India a global corporation came to control much of the subcontinent, and .. show full overview

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