Disc 1. Earliest history of the Indian Subcontinent ; Migration and the Adivast ; Indus Valley civilization ; Indo-European Vedic culture ; Caste : Varna and Jati ; Epic literature : Ramayana -- disc 2. Epic history : Mahabharata ; Dharma in the Bhagavad Gita ; The origins and rise of Jainism ; The origins and rise of Buddhism ; The Mauryan Empire ; Ashoka's imperial Buddhism -- disc 3. Deccani and southern states ; Northwest and north India ; Brahmanic synthesis ; Indian Parsis, Jews, and Christians ; Islam comes to India ; Indian sultans -- disc 4. The early Mughal rules ; The reign of Emperor Akbar ; Later Mughal rules ; The Mughals and the Marathas ; Competing European empires ; The British East India Company -- disc 5. The issues and events of 1857 ; The British Raj and early nationalism ; India and Indians in the world ; Mahatma Gandhi ; Nationalists Ambedkar, Bose, and Jinnah ; The Partition of 1947 -- disc 6. West and East Pakistan ; The new Pakistan ; Independent Bangladesh ; India under Nehru ; Modernizing India ; South Asia into the 21st century.
|
