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<p>An award winning professor takes you on a breathtaking survey of South Asia from its earliest societies to the modern challenges.</p>

Syllabus

  • 01: Earliest History of the Indian Subcontinent
  • 02: Migration and the Adivasi
  • 03: Indus Valley Civilization
  • 04: Indo-European Vedic Culture
  • 05: Caste: Varna and Jati
  • 06: Epic Literature: Ramayana
  • 07: Epic History: Mahabharata
  • 08: Dharma in the Bhagavad Gita
  • 09: The Origins and Rise of Jainism
  • 10: The Origins and Rise of Buddhism
  • 11: The Mauryan Empire
  • 12: Ashoka's Imperial Buddhism
  • 13: Deccani and Southern States
  • 14: Northwest and North India
  • 15: Brahmanic Synthesis
  • 16: Indian Parsis, Jews, and Christians
  • 17: Islam Comes to India
  • 18: Indian Sultans
  • 19: The Early Mughal Empire
  • 20: The Reign of Emperor Akbar
  • 21: Later Mughal Emperors
  • 22: The Mughals and the Marathas
  • 23: Competing European Empires
  • 24: The British East India Company
  • 25: The Issues and Events of 1857
  • 26: The British Raj and Early Nationalism
  • 27: India and Indians in the World
  • 28: Mahatma Gandhi
  • 29: Nationalists Ambedkar, Bose, and Jinnah
  • 30: The Partition of 1947
  • 31: West and East Pakistan
  • 32: The New Pakistan
  • 33: Independent Bangladesh
  • 34: India under Nehru
  • 35: Modernizing India
  • 36: South Asia into the 21st Century
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Michael H. Fisher

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