The Story of India

The Story of India: Ep.6 - Freedom and Liberation

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The last segment of the series digs deeper into the English colonial era in India. (56 min, 6 segments)

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The Story of India: Ep.5 - The Meeting of Two Oceans

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The documentary series about the history of India charts the coming of Islam to the subcontinent and one of the greatest ages of world civilisation: the Mughals. (54 min, 6 segments)

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The Story of India: Ep.4 - Ages of Gold

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The Story of India - Ages of Gold, presents the achievements of the India’s golden age, including how India discovered zero, calculated the circumference of the Earth and wrote the world’s first sex guide, the Kama Sutra. (58 min in 7 segments)

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The Story of India: Ep.3 - Spice Routes and Silk Roads

Episode 3 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 Madurai were a delight for visiting Greek traders. (59 min, 6 segments)

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The Story of India: Ep.2 - The Power of Ideas

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The epic BBC series moves on to the revolutionary years after 500BC - the Age of the Buddha.

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The Story of India: Ep.1 - Beginnings

For this BBC documentary, Michael Wood journeys through the subcontinent, tracing the incredible richness and diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. This is a sweeping epic of a series. (54 minutes in 5 segments)

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