Title:
The story of India
Summary:
Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's most ancient surviving civilization, with unbroken continuity back into prehistory. India's history is a ten thousand year epic but for over two millennia, India has been at the center of world history: birthplace of two world religions, home of an extraordinary spectrum of music, dance, literature, science, mathematics, economics, and a revolutionary idea whose power has yet to diminish. It has seen successive invasions from Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan to Tamburlaine and the British, all of whom left their mark but all of whom succumbed--in the end--to India herself.
Audience:
Not rated PBS Home Video.
General Note:
Companion book "India: An epic journey across the subcontinent" by Michael Wood.
Originally broadcast on PBS in January and February 2009.
Special feature Disc 1: Sights and sounds of India [slide show with musical accompaniment] (9 min.).
Contents:
Beginnings: 50,000 BCE-1000 BCE -- Power of ideas: 500 BCE-200 BCE -- Spice routes and silk roads: 200 BCE-300 CE Ages of gold: 300 CE-1000 CE -- Meeting of two oceans: 1000 CE-1700 CE -- Freedom: 1700 CE-2009 CE.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (330 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Publisher:
Maya Vision International : Distributed by PBS Home Video,
Electronic Access:
Official website
Publication Date:
2008
ISBN:
9780793670154
Publication Information:
[London] : Maya Vision International : [Alexandria, VA] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2008.
Call Number:
DVD 915.4 STORY