A History of India

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Professor Biography Table of Contents Lecture 1—Earliest History of the Indian Subcontinent Lecture 2—Migration and the Adivasi Lecture 3—Indus Valley Civilization Lecture 4—Indo-European Vedic Culture Lecture 5—Caste: Varna and Jati Lecture 6—Epic Literature: Ramayana Lecture 7—Epic History: Mahabharata Lecture 8—Dharma in the Bhagavad Gita Lecture 9—The Origins and Rise of Jainism Lecture 10—The Origins and Rise of Buddhism Lecture 11—The Mauryan Empire Lecture 12—Ashoka’s Imperial Buddhism Lecture 13—Deccani and Southern States Lecture 14—Northwest and North India Lecture 15—Brahmanic Synthesis Lecture 16—Indian Parsis, Jews, and Christians Lecture 17—Islam Comes to India Lecture 18—Indian Sultans Lecture 19—The Early Mughal Empire Lecture 20—The Reign of Emperor Akbar Lecture 21—Later Mughal Emperors Lecture 22—The Mughals and the Marathas Lecture 23—Competing European Empires Lecture 24—The British East India Company Lecture 25—The Issues and Events of 1857 Lecture 26—The British Raj and Early Nationalism Lecture 27—India and Indians in the World Lecture 28—Mahatma Gandhi Lecture 29—Nationalists Ambedkar, Bose, and Jinnah Lecture 30—The Partition of 1947 Lecture 31—West and East Pakistan Lecture 32—The New Pakistan Lecture 33—Independent Bangladesh Lecture 34—India under Nehru Lecture 35—Modernizing India Lecture 36—South Asia into the 21st Century Bibliography Image Credits