Historical India Podcast
1) Episode 10 -Something in the Air - Historical India Podcast
In this episode, we take a look at the beginning of formal philosophy in the Northern kingdoms of India. There was a climate of questioning and social change which then pushed thinkers to examine the ...Show More
2) Episode 09 – Argumentative Indians - Historical India Podcast
In this episode, we take a closer look at how society operated and some of the changes that were taking place. The beginnings of dissent and protest and social revolution, new philosophies and get a c...Show More
3) Episode 08 – The Land of Belonging - Historical India Podcast
With kings fighting for glory and gold, what did the regular citizens get up to? We’ll take a look at what their lives were like, how ideas of social class and order developed. How much of an i...Show More
4) Episode 07 – The Body Politic - Historical India Podcast
We’re at a time of change. we’ll peel back the curtain on the different forces at work on ancient Indian society and see what it looked it before it changed. In this episode. we’ll ...Show More
5) Episode 06 – Uneasy lie the heads - Historical India Podcast
The Late Vedic Age; sometime between the 14th and 7th centuries BC. Or thereabouts. A time when everyone wants to be king, and then has a hard time figuring how to hold on. There are many clans and...Show More
6) Episode 5b – The Word of God, Deed of Man – (Part 3) - Historical India Podcast
We pick up at the Rajasuya and then watch things go down hill for Yudhishtra and the Pandavas. After 13 years, things come to a head and it’s all out war. But in the end, it doesn’t feel ...Show More
Episode 5b – The Word of God, Deed of Man – (Part 3) - Historical India Podcast
37:09 | Apr 5th, 2016
7) Episode 5a – The Word of God, Deed of Man – (Part 3) - Historical India Podcast
We look at the other great epic of India; the Mahabharata. A big, rich and complex work. The Mahabharata covers a range of subjects from politics, war, society, philosophy, justice, the status of wo...Show More
Episode 5a – The Word of God, Deed of Man – (Part 3) - Historical India Podcast
37:28 | Apr 1st, 2016
8) Episode 4 – Word of Man Deed of God (Part 2) - Historical India Podcast
Taking a breather from the heavier history, this time, we hear the first of the great epics of India; The Ramayana. A classical tale with kings, queens, demons and armies of warring monkeys it is ulti...Show More
9) Episode 3 – The words and deeds of Gods and Men (Part 1) - Historical India Podcast
A broad survey of ancient Indian literary sources and what historians have learnt from studying the Rig Veda, one of the oldest literary works. After guessing history from pottery remains and ruins o...Show More
Episode 3 – The words and deeds of Gods and Men (Part 1) - Historical India Podcast
34:52 | Jan 26th, 2016
10) Episode 2 – The Mark of the Unicorn - Historical India Podcast
The Indus or Harappa Civilization, a very old and still mysterious civilization that reached a high degree of urban sophistication and complexity but left very few clues to how it managed to do all t...Show More