The story of India - amazing BBC documentary series part (3 of 7)

The Story of India is a BBC TV documentary series, written and presented by historian Michael Wood, about the 10,000-year history of the Indian subcontinent in six episodes. It was originally aired on the BBC in six episodes in August and September 2007 as part of the BBC season "India and Pakistan 07", which marked the 60 years independence of India and Pakistan. In the United States, PBS broadcast the series on three Mondays, January 5, 12 and 19, 2009 from 9 to 11 PM. An accompanying text was published by BBC Books.

As in most of his documentaries, Wood explains historical events by travelling to the places where they took place, examining archeological and historical evidence at first hand and interviewing historians and archaeologists, as well as chatting with local people.

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[MrCarl2020]

did he say titty thousand at 0:17 ?

[adarshguptak]

Wow.. "Bronze age Manhattan" for Mohenjo Daro is a good expression !!

[TheThamilArasan]

@Agnyaanamdhvamsakah Thank You, truth is Power.

[TheThamilArasan]

@vishal149 There are many theories to explain the history of India. The Aryan Invasion theory was formulated by white British invaders determined to divide India, conquer and rule. British used this theory so that they can claim Indian history, medicine, inventions, and culture. Genetics have proven this theory false. Humans originated in Africa. South Asians from Pakistan to Sri Lanka are apart of the same race. “Indo-Aryan” is only a language group just like “Dravidian” is.

[Agnyaanamdhvamsakah]

@vishal149 the ONLY shred of 'evidence' that proponents of this theory hold onto is is essentially linguistic in character- that it is in the area of an Urheimat that we find the greatest diversity of language, such as exists in Europe in the case of PIE- and even this has been thoroughly refuted as nonsense for 90% of the spoken tongues in Europe are far more recent than Sanskrit or the many varieties of Prakrit.

[Agnyaanamdhvamsakah]

@vishal149 Final note: the Aryan bullshit theory was propagated by (and later even denounced) by European colonialists of the 19th century: I think it's a matter of great shame and a sign of the level that we as Indians have sunk to that a fellow Indian continues to believe 'the Aryans came from Central Asia'. Archaeologically, that there is a continuity between the Sarasvati civilization and the Ochre Coloured Pottery Culture was proof enough for even experts in the field.

[Agnyaanamdhvamsakah]

@TheThamilArasan TheThamilarasan is absolutely right in his assertions and I am glad at least some people know what they're talking about, still.

[Agnyaanamdhvamsakah]

@vishal149 Of these only the Purus and Yadus could be said to have peopled India extensively. There is evidence that suggests both these cultures lived together in the Indus Valley before moving east and south as the Sarasvati began to dry up. The Yadus or Dravidians were in all likelihood Sumerians, there is simply too much similarity between these two languages, cultures, and peoples (genetically the Sumerians were neither Indo-Iranian nor Semitic) to be dismissed as mere coincidence.

[Agnyaanamdhvamsakah]

@vishal149 the Indo-Semitic type (found among Panjabis and other such peoples), and finally the Austro-Asiatic component. It is this last category that were the 'adivasi' of continental India, comprised again of two types: the Australoid peoples that settled India before anyone else, along the coasts of peninsular India (look up Virumandi + Kallars + M130 marker), and the Asiatic type, who had distinctively recognizable Asiatic eyes (still found among many hill tribes of India)

[Agnyaanamdhvamsakah]

@vishal149 That is incorrect. You should look up the Genographic Project which attempts to 'trace the human genetic journey', which proves beyond any doubt that most of these different peoples were already in India long before 15000 ybp (or 17000 BC). As I said, there were not two but FOUR ethnicities in India at the time of initial peopling: the Purus (your 'typical North Indian', such as someone from Bihar or U.P.), the Yadus (or Padavas- your typical 'South Indian', the so-called Dravidian)