The Story Of India (2007) [WS PDTV (XviD)] REMAX

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The Story Of India

Episode 1
In the BBC's richly bejewelled season on the Indian subcontinent, they may have held
back the best till last. Here we have good egg Michael Wood approaching the great sweep
of Indian history as only he knows how - with twinkling enthusiasm and his distinctive
scruffy rigour. He begins hypnotically with Brahmin incantations (mantras) that are in
no known tongue and appear to date from before human speech - that's how old Indian
civilisation is. From there he skips to Harappa, an empire to rival ancient Egypt,
wiped out by climate change in the second millennium BC. How the remnants of that world
and the world of the epic Mahabarata shaped India's story makes for a visually seductive,
fascinating programme. Wood overflows with big ideas, but he can get down and dirty too:
there's a lovely scene where he visits the fabulous "Alley of the Apothecaries" in
Peshawar's bazaar to track down "soma", the ancient ritual drink of the Aryans
- and finds it's quite a cuppa.

Episode 2
The Story of India Michael Wood travels to the ancient cities of the
Ganges plain, by army convoy through northern Iraq and down the Khyber
Pass, to show how Alexander the Great's invasion inspired India's first
empire. Visiting the first capital, Patna, he uncovers how the ideas of
the Buddha were turned into political reality

Episode 3
Michael Wood sets sail in an old
wooden sailing boat plying its trade from south India to the Gulf, and
recounts how the spice trade with ancient Rome opened the country up to
the world. He also uncovers how at this time merchant caravans started
travelling to China and the West, making India a key player in the first
global economy

Episode 4
Michael Wood reveals how India was a centre for science and technology
during the medieval period, discovering the heliocentric universe,
absolute zero and the circumference of the Earth. Plus, how the Muslim
faith was brought to the country by Turkish and Afghan invaders in the
11th century

Episode 5
The historian tells the story of the coming of Islam to the subcontinent
and investigates the rise of the Mogul empire. He visits Sufi shrines
in Old Delhi, desert fortresses in Rajasthan and the cities of Lahore
and Agra, revealing a new theory about the construction of the Taj Mahal
and how the Muslim emperor Akbar saw his dreams of unity end in civil
war.

Episode 6
The series ends by considering the subcontinent's struggle for
independence from British rule, visiting Lucknow to investigate a Briton
who helped found the freedom movement. Also considered are the East
India Company's extensive political influence, and events leading up to
partition, including the Amritsar massacre and the rise of such figures
as Gandhi and Nehru.

Typical File Specs
Filename: the.story.of.india.s01e01.ws.pdtv.xvid-remax.avi
Format: XviD 2 Pass
Video: 640 x 352 @ 25fps
Audio: VBR MP3 Average 128k

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