Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #531 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-05
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2

Synopsis
For more than two thousand years, India has been a massive component in world history. But what are the country's origins and how did it come to be what it is today? These are just two of the questions that Michael Wood tries to answer during his quest across the country.

DVD Descripton
For over two millennia, India has been at the centre of world history. But how did India come to be? What is India? These are the big questions behind this intrepid journey around the contemporary subcontinent. In this landmark series, historian and acclaimed writer Michael Wood embarks on a dazzling and exciting expedition through today's India, looking to the present for clues to her past, and to the past for clues to her future. The journey takes the viewer through majestic landscapes and reveals some of the greatest monuments and artistic treasures on Earth. From Buddhism to Bollywood, from mathematics to outsourcing, Michael Wood discovers India's impact on history - and on us.

Customer Reviews

As thick as...
Wood is true to his name, in thick-honeyed tones he lays on a pc monologue totally devoid of insight. Wood is as thick as the proverbial two short planks of...

rambling enthusiasm
Smiling like a flower, without regard for maya, he spins the tale of great men from their artifacts and ruins, while also displaying profound regard for the sacred in whatever form and through whosoever manifest its effect upon their lives. The visuals often are irrelevant to the script and too much street distraction of people and traffic swirls in time lapse distract from substance. The current rise of technological India and middle class is completely absent and a significant deficiency from an historical perspective. This production is really effective subliminally, in its effect upon dreams and the unconscious. It should be viewed by anyone considering a visit to India as a submersion in its culture.

Contradicting its own words loof times but overall a good documentry.
Not seen many documentries covering such a good detail fo history.
But over all a interseting documentry. Full of information, The Buddha episode is covered very beautifully.

But it oftens contradicts its own words,

1) In first 15 min, the acient clan of Brahmins are reciting the hymns in Sanskrit in South India and then the Brahmins from Aryan race are reciting the Sanskrit hymns in Varansi and also impashis of Aryan Invasion theory.

2) Aryans came from central Asia around 1700 BC and they fought battles in Northern planes of India, The example given was Mahabharta, then after a minute the Mahabharata age was backdated to 3200 BC.

3) Indus valley civilization are not knowing usage of horces,