<p>An award winning professor takes you on a breathtaking survey of South Asia from its earliest societies to the modern challenges.</p>
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
Michael H. Fisher
