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A History of India
- Narrated by: Michael H. Fisher
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
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A History of India
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Publisher's Summary
Over 5,000 years, India has been home to a rich tapestry of peoples and cultures. Two of the world's great religions - Hinduism and Buddhism - have their origins in South Asia, and the lands east of the Indus River have long been a central hub for trade, migration, and cultural exchange. Today the subcontinent contains 20 percent of the world's population and is a thriving center for global business, making this region one of most significant economic powerhouses in the world.
Go inside this thrilling story with A History of India, a breathtaking survey of South Asia from its earliest societies along the Indus and Ganges rivers through the modern challenges of the 21st century. These 36 sweeping lectures enable you to understand the epic scope of the subcontinent's history. Perhaps the most important facet of this history is how diverse the region truly is. Roughly the size of continental Europe, India - along with its neighbors, Pakistan and Bangladesh - contains a myriad of ethnic groups, socioeconomic classes, religions, and cultural mores.
In this wide-ranging investigation, you'll:
- Meet the many religious communities that have coexisted in India, including Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians
- Delve into the legacies of the Mauryan Empire, the Mughal Empire, and British colonialism - three of the few governments that ever unified the subcontinent
- Witness the fight for independence from European powers and the partition of the region into the countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in the 20th century
- Consider the challenges and opportunities faced by this area today, from expanding urbanization to the vast need for energy sources to the ongoing heated debates about national identity
Professor Fisher, who has traveled and taught in South Asia for decades, reveals this complex narrative with skill and compelling insights.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- jubilee nicodemus
- 22-05-2022
well written. poor narration
loved the lectures but very irritating to listen to mispronounced anglasised Indian words. Why couldn't they have used a narrator who could speak Hindi instead.
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- Neety Thorsteinsson
- 02-08-2020
BRILLIANT!
Every chapter was fascinating and informative. Great lecturer. Really couldn't put it down. Or rather, press pause.
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- Kindle Customer
- 30-04-2023
Average in all aspects
formulaic,full of anti European leanings.Please just compare the muslim carrying the message of Muhammad (probably peaceful)to India with "European colonialism (likely abhorent).
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- G Peilon
- 23-05-2023
Not a great course
The story is OK but overall not the best to learn. Some editorial choices were annoying. The consistent stress on emic/edic perspectives has an undertone of cultural relativism (every perspective is worth the same). Even though the text didn’t fall too much into that. The different descriptions of invasions was too much marked by current political slants: Muslims invaders are sharing/spreading their culture, while British are foreign occupiers. The history of the Mongol Empire in the same series is a counter example of how to do it well.
Also, an important default is the reading style which was harder to follow than reading the text of the accompanying pdf.
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- chris
- 28-07-2017
Real tiltle history of pakistan and islam is great
Absolutely appalling, this is a social justice lecture. To save your money I'll break it down for you, 60% pakistan history and how great the muslim invasions were, 30% how terrible and racist Britain is, 10% ancient history of India, two paragraphs on the formation and history of Sikhs (not joking), and the rest a brief history of 20th century indian politics. that's it.... you're welcome
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- Ken Craig
- 03-02-2018
Much needed topic, but poor delivery and patchy structure
This course fills a massive gap in the Audible library for Asian non-fiction. By trying to address this gap, deliberately or not, the course is spread very thin and inconsistently. There are no prevailing themes or obvious structure to this course. It lightly touches on archaeology, literature, religion, geography and finally contemporary politics. Yet, I don’t feel that I learned much on any of these topics.
The delivery is very poor. The lecturer stammers over words, pauses awkwardly and have no cadence or rhythm. In the many instances where the content completely changes direction, time, place or academic discipline, there is no signal from the monotone delivery. I often found myself skipping back, assuming that I had missed something, because now we were in a completely different time and place. I only persisted because there is no substitute product on Audible at the moment and this subject is something I want to learn more about. We’re in the Asian Century, yet there is an embarrassing lack of quality non-fiction on the largest continent here.
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