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A history of India / Professor Michael H. Fisher (Oberlin College).

Fisher, Michael Herbert, 1950- (author,, speaker.). Teaching Company, (publisher.).

Summary:

A series of lectures delivered by Professor Michael H. Fisher of Oberlin College on the history of India.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1629972754
  • ISBN: 9781629972756
  • Physical Description: 18 audio discs (approximately 18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm)
  • Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Lectures.
Title from disc label.
Contains 36 lectures; each lecture runs approximately 30 min.
In 3 containers.
"Course no. 8350."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Accompanying course guidebook includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
volume 1: lecture 1. Earliest history of the Indian subcontinent -- lecture 2. Migration and the Adivasi lecture 3. Indus Valley civilization -- lecture 4. Indo-European Vedic culture -- lecture 5. Caste : Varna and Jati -- lecture 6. Epic literature : Ramayana -- lecture 7. Epic history : Mahabharata -- lecture 8. Dharma in the Bhagavad Gita -- lecture 9. The origins and rise of Jainism -- lecture 10. The origins and rise of Buddhism -- lecture 11. The Mauryan Empire -- lecture 12. Ashoka's imperial Buddhism.
volume 2: lecture 13. Deccani and southern states -- lecture 14. Northwest and north India -- lecture 15. Brahmanic synthesis -- lecture 16. Indian Parsis, Jews, and Christians -- lecture 17. Islam comes to India -- lecture 18. Indian sultans -- lecture 19. The early Mughal Empire -- lecture 20. The reign of Emperor Akbar -- lecture 21. Later Mughal emperors -- lecture 22. The Mughals and the Marathas -- lecture 23. Competing European empires -- lecture 24. The British East India Company.
volume 3: lecture 25. The issues and events of 1857 -- lecture 26. The British Raj and early nationalism -- lecture 27. India and Indians in the world lecture 28. Mahatma Gandhi -- lecture 29. Nationalists Ambedkar, Bose, and Jinnah -- lecture 30. The Partition of 1947 -- lecture 31. West and East Pakistan -- lecture 32. The new Pakistan lecture 33. Independent Bangladesh -- lecture 34. India under Nehru -- lecture 35. Modernizing India -- lecture 36. South Asia into the 21st century.
Participant or Performer Note:
Lecturer, Michael H. Fisher.
Subject:
India > History.
Inde > Histoire.
India.
Genre:
Lecture
Talking books.
Talking books, Unabridged.
lectures.
Audiobooks.
History.
Lectures.
Audiobooks.
Lectures.
Livres audio.
Conférences.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Lummi Library DS 436 .F57 2016 680039 Stacks Available -
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