The Story of India

I find Wood to be fascinating, and that he is preoccupied with India at present is OK with me. I learning much about the general scheme of history in India, realizing that much of early India is Pakistan now. But Wood makes clear that India is a British idea, anyway. Some idea of the first civilizations of the Indus and the invasions of the Aryans--cementing what Karen Armstrong had to say about the development of Vedic religion. Did not quite realize the Siddartha was not a “heterodox” sect as claimed, but a reaction of strict Brahmanical rites. Ashoka as the first great modern empire, followed by Mauryas and then sometime later domination by Afghans in the north, leading eventually to Babar and the other Moghuls. Makes clear that India will be the world force/economy of the future.

Author: Wood, Michael

Date Published: 2007

Length: 9 hr 37 min

Narrator: Dastor, Sam