Great courses (Compact disc)

Lectures

A series of lectures delivered by Professor Michael H. Fisher of Oberlin College on the history of India

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Contains 36 lectures; each lecture runs approximately 30 min

In 3 containers

"Course no. 8350."

Unabridged

Lecturer, Michael H. Fisher

volume 1: 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.

Origins and rise of Jainism --

lecture 10.

Origins and rise of Buddhism --

lecture 11.

Mauryan Empire --

lecture 12.

Ashoka's imperial Buddhism volume 2:

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.

Early Mughal Empire --

lecture 20.

Reign of Emperor Akbar --

lecture 21.

Later Mughal emperors --

lecture 22.

Mughals and the Marathas --

lecture 23.

Competing European empires --

lecture 24.

British East India Company volume 3:

lecture 25.

Issues and events of 1857 --

lecture 26.

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.

Partition of 1947 --

lecture 31.

West and East Pakistan --

lecture 32.

New Pakistan

lecture 33.

Independent Bangladesh --

lecture 34.

India under Nehru --

lecture 35.

Modernizing India --

lecture 36.

South Asia into the 21st century