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MICHAEL WOOD - THE STORY OF INDIA
The Great Moghuls
Episode 5 of 6
BBC-2 Friday 21 September 2007 @ 9.00pm
Viewers are taken back to the time of the European Renaissance, when India was the richest and most populous civilisation in the world, as Michael Wood continues to tell The Story Of India.
Michael visits the desert cities of Rajasthan and travels among the fabulous Moghul cities of Delhi, Agra and Fatepur Sikri. At the Taj Mahal, which was recently voted one of the new Seven Wonders of the World by voters worldwide, Wood demolishes an old myth about the Taj and offers a startling new theory about its construction.
Exploring the legacy of the Moghul empire that stretched across today's political borders, Michael tells the tale of the early Moghuls. He begins with the redoubtable Babur, founder of the dynasty, and his grandson, Akbar the Great – "one of the very greatest figures in history" and a Muslim king who tried to make India a multi-racial and multi-religious state. His aim was to achieve a Hindu-Muslim equilibrium based on the brotherhood of mankind, with no one religion holding the ultimate truth. This, Michael says, could be a message for our own time, if ever there was one.
The story of the Moghuls has some of the most fascinating characters in history but ends in tragedy as two brothers fought over Akbar's legacy, in a battle that broke Akbar's dream. Waiting in the wings to pick over the spoils, however, were the British...
This series is part of the pan-BBC India & Pakistan 07 season marking the 60th anniversary of Partition
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