发现印度 Bharat Ek Khoj

Bharat Ek Khoj (Hindi: भारत एक खोज, Urdu: بھارت ایک کھوج, English: The Discovery of India) is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India (1946) by Jawaharlal Nehru, that dramatically unfolds the 5000 year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of independence in 1947. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. Benegal＇s regular script collaborator Shama Zaidi also co-wrote the script.

The series dramatically unfolds and explores the five-thousand year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of the independence in 1947. It＇s cast include Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Tom Alter and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. Jawaharlal Nehru was portrayed by Roshan Seth, who had previously portrayed Nehru in Richard Attenborough＇s Gandhi (1982). While Seth enacted the part of Nehru as the story-teller at key points in every episode, Om Puri provided the narration.

The drama was previously aired in DD Bharati and currently runs on Lok Sabha TV.

List of episodes

Bharat Mata Ki Jai

The Beginnings

The Arrival of the Vedic People (the Rigveda)

Caste Formation

Mahabharata Part 1

Mahabharata Part 2

Ramayana Part 1

Ramayana Part 2

Republics and Kingdoms

Negation and Acceptance of Life

Chanakya and Chandragupta Part 1

Chanakya and Chandragupta Part 2

Ashoka Part 1

Ashoka Part 2

The Sangam Period: Silapaddirakam Part 1

The Sangam Period: Silapaddirakam Part 2

The Classical Age

Kalidas and Shakuntala Part 1

Kalidas and Shakuntala Part 2

Harshavardhana

Bhakti

The Chola Empire Part 1

The Chola Empire Part 2

The Delhi Sultanate and Prithviraj Raso Part 1

The Delhi Sultanate and Prithviraj Raso Part 2

The Delhi Sultanate and Padmavat

Synthesis

The Vijayanagar Empire

Feudalism

The Fall of the Vijayanagar Empire

Rana Sanga, Ibrahim Lodi and Babur

Akbar Part 1 (Din-e-Ilahi)

Akbar Part 2

Golden Hind

Aurangzeb Part 1

Aurangzeb Part 2

Shivaji Part 1

Shivaji Part 2

Company Bahadur

Tipu Sultan

The Bengal Renaissance and Raja Ram Mohan Roy

1857 Part 1

1857 Part 2

Indigo Revolt

Mahatma Phule

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

Vivekananda

Extremists and Moderates

And Gandhi Came Part 1

And Gandhi Came Part 2

Separatism

Do or Die

Epilogue