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24 chapters
Ancient India's Gifts to Humanity: Mathematics, Medicine, Metallurgy, and Philosophy
About 12 min
Economic Life After the Mauryas: Guilds, Commerce, and Urban Growth
About 12 min
End of the Ancient World: Social, Religious, and Political Change in Post-Gupta India
About 14 min
India's Cultural Exchanges Across Asia
About 18 min
Silk Route Encounters: How Central Asia Shaped Ancient India
About 14 min
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Akbar's Vision: Unifying a Continent-Sized Empire
About 20 min
Daily Life and High Culture under Mughal Rule
About 20 min
India Between Two Worlds: A Retrospective on Eight Centuries of Medieval History
About 12 min
Kingdoms of the South and the Mughal Shadow: Deccan Sultanates and Cultural Synthesis
About 18 min
Panipat and Its Consequences: How the Mughals Defeated the Lodis and the Suri Interlude
About 18 min
The Maratha Challenge: Shivaji, the Deccan Wars, and Mughal Twilight
About 20 min
The Twilight Before the Storm: Mughal India Under Jahangir and Early Shah Jahan
About 18 min
Zenith and Fracture: Aurangzeb's Rule and the Unravelling of Mughal Power
About 20 min
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Agrarian Uprisings: How India's Rural Poor Fought Back from 1857 to Independence
About 18 min
Bombs and Manifestos: India's Early Revolutionary Nationalists
About 8 min
Colonial Classrooms: How British Policy Shaped Indian Education
About 16 min
Congress Is Born: From Loyal Petitioners to Assertive Nationalists
About 8 min
Drain of Wealth: How Colonial Economics Underdeveloped India
About 18 min
Labour Wakes Up: Trade Unions, Strikes, and Working Class Politics in Colonial India
About 14 min
Print, Protest, and Power: The Indian Press and Its Legal History
About 16 min
Reimagining Tradition: Social and Cultural Reform in Colonial India
About 8 min
Seeds of the Freedom Struggle: How Modern Indian Nationalism Took Shape
About 8 min
War Abroad, Politics at Home: World War I and Indian Nationalism's New Energy
About 8 min
Before the Sepoys: Earlier Uprisings Against Colonial Rule
About 18 min
Colonial Foothold: European Trading Powers Enter the Subcontinent
About 20 min
Gandhi Arrives: From Champaran to the Rowlatt Agitation
About 18 min
Laying the Foundations: British-Era Legal and Governance Reforms
About 25 min
A Fragmented Subcontinent: India Before the British Tightened Their Grip
About 20 min
Final Push for Freedom: Quit India, Jinnah's Demand, and Bose's Army
About 20 min
Rule by Policy: A Survey of British Administrative, Economic, and Social Strategies
About 14 min
The First Mass Struggle: Gandhi, the Khilafat, and Non-Cooperation
About 16 min
Uncoordinated Defiance: Tribal Protests and Army Mutinies in Pre-1857 India
About 16 min
After the War: India's Political Landscape in the Final Decade of Colonial Rule
About 22 min
Beyond Non-Cooperation: New Political Currents in the 1920s Independence Movement
About 18 min
Empire by Design: How the British Extended and Secured Their Indian Dominion
About 25 min
The First War of Independence: 1857 Uprising — Causes, Course, and Consequences
About 20 min
Faith, Reason, and Reform: The Common Threads of 19th Century Religious Movements
About 16 min
Freedom and Fracture: August 1947 and the Birth of Two Nations
About 18 min
No Indians Allowed: The Simon Commission Boycott and India's Counter-Proposal
About 14 min
Salt, Silence, and Settlements: The CDM Era and Its Aftermath
About 22 min
What Next for the Movement? Ideological Debates and the 1935 Act
About 14 min
India's First Experiment in Self-Rule: Provincial Ministries Under the 1935 Act
About 10 min
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Bhakti and Sufi Movement
About 16 min
Currency Through the Ages: Coinage as a Window into Indian History
About 14 min
Custodians of Heritage: India's Academies, Archives, and Cultural Bodies
About 14 min
Delhi — A City of Seven Cities
About 8 min
Fighting Traditions: Kalaripayattu, Silambam, and India's Indigenous Combat Arts
About 12 min
Movement as Expression: India's Classical Traditions and Folk Dance Heritage
About 8 min
India's Linguistic Mosaic: Families, Scripts, and the Eighth Schedule
About 15 min
India's World Heritage: Monuments, Landscapes, and Sites on the UNESCO Tangible List
About 12 min
Marking Time: India's Many Calendrical Traditions and the National Calendar
About 12 min
Stage, Story, and Society: India's Theatrical Heritage Across Time
About 8 min
Stone and Spirit: India's Built Heritage from Mohenjo-Daro to Vijayanagara
About 20 min
Celebration Across the Subcontinent: India's Regional and National Festivals
About 18 min
Colour and Canvas: India's Painting Traditions from Cave Art to Contemporary
About 20 min
Faiths of a Civilisation: India's Major Religions, Their Origins, and Core Beliefs
About 20 min
Strings and Shadows: India's Ancient and Diverse Puppetry Traditions
About 8 min
The Sound of India: Ragas, Talas, Folk Traditions, and Musical Instruments
About 20 min
Made by Hand: India's Textile Traditions, Weaves, and Artisan Crafts
About 18 min
Medals, Honours, and National Recognition: India's Civilian and Military Awards
About 10 min
Under the Big Top: The History and Status of the Indian Circus
About 8 min
Words Across the Ages: India's Literary Heritage from the Vedas to the Modern Era
About 20 min
India's Philosophical Traditions: Six Orthodox Schools and Their Heterodox Rivals
About 15 min
Living Heritage: India's Inscribed Traditions on UNESCO's Intangible List
About 8 min
Where Law Meets Heritage: Constitutional and Statutory Protection of Culture
About 10 min
Lights, Camera, Nation: The Story of Indian Cinema and Film Regulation
About 12 min
India's Scientific Heritage: From Aryabhata's Zero to Ancient Naval Technology
About 15 min