The ENTIRE History of India in 16 Minutes (7000 BC – 2026)

The history of India is the story of a prize. This history documentary covers 9,000 years of Indian history, from the first farmers of Mehrgarh and the Indus Valley Civilization to Ashoka the Great, the Mughal Empire, the East India Company and modern India. If you counted anything today, you used an idea from India: zero. Chess, cotton and even the word "shampoo" came from here too. For three thousand years, anyone who wanted to rule the world wanted India first. Alexander the Great reached it and turned back. The Mughals came and stayed for three centuries. A trading company from London ruled it with a private army. Every one of those empires is gone. India is still here. This documentary follows the complete story of ancient and modern India: 1.5-million-year-old stone tools near Chennai, the world's oldest dentistry at Mehrgarh, the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, the railway built on Harappa's bricks, the undeciphered Indus script and its $1 million prize, the drought that named a geological age, the Buddha, Alexander the Great at the Beas River, Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and the Kalinga War, the Roman trade that drained Rome's gold, the Gupta golden age, Aryabhata, Brahmagupta and the invention of zero, how "Arabic numerals" came from India, Nalanda University, the Chola navy, the Delhi Sultanate, Babur and the Battle of Panipat, Akbar, Shah Jahan and the Taj Mahal, Nader Shah and the Koh-i-Noor diamond, Vasco da Gama, Robert Clive and the Battle of Plassey, Tipu Sultan's rockets, the 1857 rebellion, the British Raj, Gandhi and the Salt March, the Bengal Famine of 1943, the Partition of India, the Indian Constitution, the world's biggest first election, the Mars Orbiter Mission and Chandrayaan-3. Empires came through the mountains and across the sea to take India's spices, cotton and diamonds. Not one of them could keep it. And the ideas India gave the world had already left long before the conquerors arrived. This documentary is based on archaeological discoveries, academic research and primary historical sources. We bring history to life while staying faithful to the historical record. CHAPTERS 0:00 Everyone Wanted India 0:38 The Prize 1:40 Before the Kings: Mehrgarh and the Indus Valley 3:35 The Buddha, Alexander and Ashoka 5:30 India's Golden Age of Ideas: Zero, Nalanda, the Cholas 7:25 Sultans and Mughals: the Taj Mahal and the Koh-i-Noor 9:50 The East India Company 11:55 The Diamond's Journey to London 12:45 Gandhi, Famine and Partition 14:50 Modern India 15:20 Nobody Got to Keep It SOURCES Pappu, S. et al. (2011), "Early Pleistocene Presence of Acheulian Hominins in South India," Science Coppa, A. et al. (2006), "Early Neolithic tradition of dentistry," Nature Walker, M. et al. (2018), "Formal ratification of the subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch," Episodes Dhammika, S. (1993), The Edicts of King Asoka, Buddhist Publication Society Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book 6 Plofker, K. (2009), Mathematics in India, Princeton University Press Maddison, A. (2007), Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 AD, Oxford University Press Dalrymple, W. (2019), The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, Bloomsbury Dalrymple, W. & Anand, A. (2017), Koh-i-Noor: The Story of the World's Most Infamous Diamond, Bloomsbury Sen, A. (1981), Poverty and Famines, Oxford University Press Chester, L. (2009), Borders and Conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab, Manchester University Press Guha, R. (2007), India After Gandhi, Macmillan ISRO — Mars Orbiter Mission; Chandrayaan-3 #India #IndianHistory #HistoryOfIndia #AncientIndia #IndusValleyCivilization #MughalEmpire #TajMahal #KohINoor #Ashoka #EastIndiaCompany #BritishRaj #Gandhi #Partition #History #Documentary #HistoryDocumentary #WorldHistory