Historian Michael Wood visits places and interviews experts all over India to cover the great chapters of the subcontinent's long and impressive history. These include the racial make-up and the role and origins of great religions, native like Hinduism and Buddhism as well as imported, notably Islam. As well as state-building and international relations, culminating in colonization and road back to unified (albeit in two states) independence.

In the two thousand years of history , India has been an important part of the world , but this country originated when ? How to gradient into today ? This is Michael Wood across the country tried to answer two questions .
In this series , Michael Wood will explore some ancient Indian history and culture shaping place : Bart a once great city of Madurai since the first millennium BC , there has been so far the town and other once India 's spice trade center of the ancient region.
Episode : the source Beginnings
Episode : The idea of ​​the power of The Power of Ideas
III: The Spice and Silk Road Spice the Routes and Silk Roads
Episode IV: A Golden Age Ages of Gold
Episode : The intersection of the two oceans The Meeting of the Two Oceans
VI: freedom and liberation of Freedom and Liberation