Historian Michael Wood visits places and interviews experts all over India to cover the great chapters of the subcontinent’s long and impressive history. These include the racial make-up and the role and origins of great religions, native like Hinduism and Buddhism as well as imported, notably Islam. As well as state-building and international relations, culminating in colonization and road back to unified (albeit in two states) independence. —KGF Vissers

Includes 30 minutes of bonus material as DVD extras.