A History of British India
Season 1
The 200 years of Britain’s colonial rule of India was a time of seminal transformation and change - for India, for Britain, and for the world. In A History of British India, explore how the British took power in India, built a massive economic machine, and ruled until India’s 1947 independence. You’ll relive a crucial era in international relations, one with deep and lasting implications.
2020
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S1 E1 - Introduction to India
June 1, 2020
33min
PG
Delve into core aspects of Indian culture that provide a rich background for the story of British rule. Grasp the key precepts of Hinduism, and the notions of dharma, karma, and samsara. Study the caste system, the features of Indian families and marriages, and explore how society and religion shape politics in India.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E2 - The Mughal Empire in 18th-Century India
June 1, 2020
33min
PG
Examine the monumental empire of the Mughals, the Islamic rulers of India. Investigate how the Mughals governed through military skill, administrative brilliance, and religious tolerance. Look at the state of Indian society in the 18th century, and how changes in Mughal politics and economics laid the foundation for the British conquest of India.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E3 - Indian and British Economic Interests
June 1, 2020
32min
PG
Here, explore further how the Indian subcontinent drifted toward colonialism. Observe how the "regionalization" of the Mughal Empire compromised the emperors' ability to govern. Take account of India's prominence within the broader global economy, and chart the rise of powerful banking families who played a critical role in the emergence of British rule.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E4 - British Expansion in India (1757 - 1820)
June 1, 2020
29min
PG
Witness how the English East India Company, a trading organization, expanded its early footing in Bengal. Study the Company's extraordinary transformation, through military conquests, from a merchant venture into a political entity. Finally, follow the Company's expansion into other regions, employing the Mughal revenue system to tax India's agrarian countryside.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E5 - Knowing the Country: British Orientalism
June 1, 2020
31min
PG
Learn how British scholars and administrators pursued knowledge of Indian culture, and how the early British colonials adapted to living within Indian society. Grasp the ways in which British romanticizing of India and misunderstanding of traditional customs had major consequences for colonial policy and the well-being of the Indian populace.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E6 - Race, Gender, and Culture (1750 - 1850)
June 1, 2020
31min
PG
The opening up of India gave rise to a discourse on race that became central to the colonial relationship. Study British racial paradigms in Company-ruled India, which emphasized differences between Indians and the British to "justify" colonial rule. Also explore the British notion of masculinity and how it bolstered their self-perception as colonial masters.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E7 - The Age of Reform (1830 - 1850)
June 1, 2020
30min
PG
Contemporary currents of thought in England affected the ways in which India was governed. Learn how utilitarianism and Christian evangelicalism undergirded attempts by the British to educate and "reform" India. Track the major changes in the economic relationship between Britain and India that contributed to the Great Uprising of 1857.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E8 - The Great Uprising (1857 - 1858)
June 1, 2020
28min
PG
Study the accumulation of religious, economic, and political grievances against the East India Company that set the stage for the Great Uprising of 1857. Then witness the outbreak and bloody unfolding of the Uprising itself. Observe how the "mutiny" changed British attitudes toward India, and the way Britain governed it under the Raj.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E9 - Economics and Society under the Raj
June 1, 2020
30min
PG
Examine the nature of the colonial economy, and trace economic decisions by the British that constrained the livelihoods of artisans and peasants. Assess the Raj's fiscal policy, which privileged British interests over public works. Observe how these policies affected the lives of millions who toiled to produce the wealth of the Raj.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E10 - Caste and Tribal Identity under Colonialism
June 1, 2020
29min
PG
As a social institution, caste changed markedly under British colonial rule. First, examine how the British encountered caste and tried to understand it. Then see how caste became significantly linked with the colonial tax revenue system. Take account of the ways in which caste distinctions became more prominent, codified, and pervasive under colonialism.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E11 - The Nationalization of Hinduism (1870 - 1900)
June 1, 2020
32min
PG
Discover how the broader traditions of Hinduism were affected by the colonial experience. Examine the theological assault on Hinduism by European Christian missionaries, and the responses of high-caste Hindus. Look at important Hindu reform movements, which sought to modernize Hinduism, and grasp how key currents of reformist thinking linked Hinduism with Indian nationhood.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E12 - Indian Muslim Identity and Colonial Rule
June 1, 2020
31min
PG
Indian Islam underwent profound shifts under colonial rule. Investigate how the British codifying of Islamic law changed Indian Muslims' communal identity. See how the advent of English language and education, and the Indian census, distanced Muslims from Hindus. Lastly, assess how the Deobandi reform movement reinvented Indian Islam to ensure its survival.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E13 - The Late-19th-Century British Raj
June 1, 2020
30min
PG
Study British racial attitudes toward Indians in the late 19th century and how these conceptions were manifested in the way India was governed. Learn about the officials who administrated the Raj, the Indian Civil Service, and the modernization of India. Grasp how all of these elements reflect the mindset of the British Raj.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E14 - Princely States and Royalist Relationships
June 1, 2020
30min
PG
India's princely states played a crucial role in maintaining British power. Examine the history of the princely kingdoms, and why they remained separate from British-controlled territory. Follow how the British cultivated ties of loyalty with Indian princes and exerted "indirect rule." Explore the contradiction of a modernizing British Raj that supported feudal princes.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E15 - Indian Nationalism and the Freedom Struggle
June 1, 2020
32min
PG
Analyze how a new generation of English-educated Indians spearheaded Indian nationalism. Trace the emergence of the Indian National Congress, which initially represented moderate nationalists, and observe how repressive British policies sowed anticolonial sentiment. Witness the strengthening of nationalist fervor, as it erupted into political extremism and violence in the early 20th century.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E16 - The Great War and Its Impact on India
June 1, 2020
30min
PG
Examine the severe effects of the First World War on India's economy. Learn how both moderate and radical nationalists responded to the war to press for concessions and independence. Explore strains in the colonial relationship exposed by the war that made India ripe for the emergence of Mohandas Gandhi.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E17 - Gandhi's Moral-Political Philosophy
June 1, 2020
30min
PG
Investigate Gandhi's early life and how he became a nationalist leader. Study the elements of his political philosophy, the political tools of ahimsa (no harm) and satyagraha (force of truth), and the forces of modernity and British rule that Gandhi critiqued. Finally, examine the 1919 event that thrust him onto the national stage.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E18 - The Noncooperation Movement
June 1, 2020
32min
PG
Observe how Gandhi reorganized the Indian National Congress into a mass political machine, as witnessed in the Noncooperation Movement, where Indians boycotted the British on a national scale. Note how these actions and others exposed moral faults in the Raj, and track the Raj's counterstrategies that attempted to marginalize those nationalists seeking independence.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E19 - Indian Muslim Politics between the Wars
June 1, 2020
30min
PG
Indian Muslim identity began to change in important ways in the 20th century. Study the impact on Indian Muslims of the First World War, and the resulting Muslim Khalifat Movement, which opposed Britain's war aims against the Ottoman Caliphate. See how Hindu/Muslim religious-political rivalries gave birth to the idea of Pakistan.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E20 - The Civil Disobedience Campaign
June 1, 2020
33min
PG
Now examine the "second round" of Indian nationalist action against the British Raj. Witness the effects on India of the global economic depression after 1929, which triggered the Civil Disobedience Campaign, a massive boycotting of British goods, services, and institutions. Assess the Raj's countertactic of extending constitutional concessions to stem nationalist agitation.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E21 - Britain and Its Empire in the 1940s
June 1, 2020
31min
PG
Witness how Britain's wartime mobilization alienated the Indian National Congress and took a horrific toll on the Indian poor. Study the resulting Quit India Movement, the largest uprising against the British since 1857, and the events of the war's aftermath that set the stage for the end of 200 years of colonial rule.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E22 - The Raj on Its Knees (1945 - 1947)
June 1, 2020
30min
PG
Investigate the increasing levels of dissent, mutiny, and agrarian suffering and unrest that followed World War II. Chart the astonishing rise of the Muslim League after 1940, its presence in the negotiations for independence, and the League's actions in key provinces that sparked terrible communal violence in the Raj's final days.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E23 - A Split India: Negotiating Independence
June 1, 2020
31min
PG
Examine the factors in Britain's decision to "quit" India. Take account of the final negotiations between the National Congress, the Muslim League, and the British, noting the contrasting visions of an independent India held by the Congress and the League. Grasp how Hindu-Muslim violence affected the ultimate partition of India and Pakistan.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E24 - Reflections on Postcolonial India
June 1, 2020
31min
PG
Learn about the harrowing events following Partition, which saw widespread killings and the largest displacement of human populations in history. Assess what the events of 1947 meant for the Indian National Congress, Pakistanis, and the British. Finally, reflect on the lasting legacy of the British Raj and its rule of India.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
A History of British India
Season 1
The 200 years of Britain’s colonial rule of India was a time of seminal transformation and change - for India, for Britain, and for the world. In A History of British India, explore how the British took power in India, built a massive economic machine, and ruled until India’s 1947 independence. You’ll relive a crucial era in international relations, one with deep and lasting implications.
202024 episodes
PG
Documentary
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
Play Season 1, Episode 1
Trailer
Watchlist
Like
Not for meDownload Episode 1
Share
EpisodesRelatedDetails
Episodes
SortS1 E1 - Introduction to India
June 1, 2020
33minPG
Delve into core aspects of Indian culture that provide a rich background for the story of British rule. Grasp the key precepts of Hinduism, and the notions of dharma, karma, and samsara. Study the caste system, the features of Indian families and marriages, and explore how society and religion shape politics in India.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E2 - The Mughal Empire in 18th-Century India
June 1, 2020
33minPG
Examine the monumental empire of the Mughals, the Islamic rulers of India. Investigate how the Mughals governed through military skill, administrative brilliance, and religious tolerance. Look at the state of Indian society in the 18th century, and how changes in Mughal politics and economics laid the foundation for the British conquest of India.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E3 - Indian and British Economic Interests
June 1, 2020
32minPG
Here, explore further how the Indian subcontinent drifted toward colonialism. Observe how the "regionalization" of the Mughal Empire compromised the emperors' ability to govern. Take account of India's prominence within the broader global economy, and chart the rise of powerful banking families who played a critical role in the emergence of British rule.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E4 - British Expansion in India (1757 - 1820)
June 1, 2020
29minPG
Witness how the English East India Company, a trading organization, expanded its early footing in Bengal. Study the Company's extraordinary transformation, through military conquests, from a merchant venture into a political entity. Finally, follow the Company's expansion into other regions, employing the Mughal revenue system to tax India's agrarian countryside.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E5 - Knowing the Country: British Orientalism
June 1, 2020
31minPG
Learn how British scholars and administrators pursued knowledge of Indian culture, and how the early British colonials adapted to living within Indian society. Grasp the ways in which British romanticizing of India and misunderstanding of traditional customs had major consequences for colonial policy and the well-being of the Indian populace.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E6 - Race, Gender, and Culture (1750 - 1850)
June 1, 2020
31minPG
The opening up of India gave rise to a discourse on race that became central to the colonial relationship. Study British racial paradigms in Company-ruled India, which emphasized differences between Indians and the British to "justify" colonial rule. Also explore the British notion of masculinity and how it bolstered their self-perception as colonial masters.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E7 - The Age of Reform (1830 - 1850)
June 1, 2020
30minPG
Contemporary currents of thought in England affected the ways in which India was governed. Learn how utilitarianism and Christian evangelicalism undergirded attempts by the British to educate and "reform" India. Track the major changes in the economic relationship between Britain and India that contributed to the Great Uprising of 1857.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E8 - The Great Uprising (1857 - 1858)
June 1, 2020
28minPG
Study the accumulation of religious, economic, and political grievances against the East India Company that set the stage for the Great Uprising of 1857. Then witness the outbreak and bloody unfolding of the Uprising itself. Observe how the "mutiny" changed British attitudes toward India, and the way Britain governed it under the Raj.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E9 - Economics and Society under the Raj
June 1, 2020
30minPG
Examine the nature of the colonial economy, and trace economic decisions by the British that constrained the livelihoods of artisans and peasants. Assess the Raj's fiscal policy, which privileged British interests over public works. Observe how these policies affected the lives of millions who toiled to produce the wealth of the Raj.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E10 - Caste and Tribal Identity under Colonialism
June 1, 2020
29minPG
As a social institution, caste changed markedly under British colonial rule. First, examine how the British encountered caste and tried to understand it. Then see how caste became significantly linked with the colonial tax revenue system. Take account of the ways in which caste distinctions became more prominent, codified, and pervasive under colonialism.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E11 - The Nationalization of Hinduism (1870 - 1900)
June 1, 2020
32minPG
Discover how the broader traditions of Hinduism were affected by the colonial experience. Examine the theological assault on Hinduism by European Christian missionaries, and the responses of high-caste Hindus. Look at important Hindu reform movements, which sought to modernize Hinduism, and grasp how key currents of reformist thinking linked Hinduism with Indian nationhood.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E12 - Indian Muslim Identity and Colonial Rule
June 1, 2020
31minPG
Indian Islam underwent profound shifts under colonial rule. Investigate how the British codifying of Islamic law changed Indian Muslims' communal identity. See how the advent of English language and education, and the Indian census, distanced Muslims from Hindus. Lastly, assess how the Deobandi reform movement reinvented Indian Islam to ensure its survival.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E13 - The Late-19th-Century British Raj
June 1, 2020
30minPG
Study British racial attitudes toward Indians in the late 19th century and how these conceptions were manifested in the way India was governed. Learn about the officials who administrated the Raj, the Indian Civil Service, and the modernization of India. Grasp how all of these elements reflect the mindset of the British Raj.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E14 - Princely States and Royalist Relationships
June 1, 2020
30minPG
India's princely states played a crucial role in maintaining British power. Examine the history of the princely kingdoms, and why they remained separate from British-controlled territory. Follow how the British cultivated ties of loyalty with Indian princes and exerted "indirect rule." Explore the contradiction of a modernizing British Raj that supported feudal princes.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E15 - Indian Nationalism and the Freedom Struggle
June 1, 2020
32minPG
Analyze how a new generation of English-educated Indians spearheaded Indian nationalism. Trace the emergence of the Indian National Congress, which initially represented moderate nationalists, and observe how repressive British policies sowed anticolonial sentiment. Witness the strengthening of nationalist fervor, as it erupted into political extremism and violence in the early 20th century.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E16 - The Great War and Its Impact on India
June 1, 2020
30minPG
Examine the severe effects of the First World War on India's economy. Learn how both moderate and radical nationalists responded to the war to press for concessions and independence. Explore strains in the colonial relationship exposed by the war that made India ripe for the emergence of Mohandas Gandhi.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E17 - Gandhi's Moral-Political Philosophy
June 1, 2020
30minPG
Investigate Gandhi's early life and how he became a nationalist leader. Study the elements of his political philosophy, the political tools of ahimsa (no harm) and satyagraha (force of truth), and the forces of modernity and British rule that Gandhi critiqued. Finally, examine the 1919 event that thrust him onto the national stage.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E18 - The Noncooperation Movement
June 1, 2020
32minPG
Observe how Gandhi reorganized the Indian National Congress into a mass political machine, as witnessed in the Noncooperation Movement, where Indians boycotted the British on a national scale. Note how these actions and others exposed moral faults in the Raj, and track the Raj's counterstrategies that attempted to marginalize those nationalists seeking independence.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E19 - Indian Muslim Politics between the Wars
June 1, 2020
30minPG
Indian Muslim identity began to change in important ways in the 20th century. Study the impact on Indian Muslims of the First World War, and the resulting Muslim Khalifat Movement, which opposed Britain's war aims against the Ottoman Caliphate. See how Hindu/Muslim religious-political rivalries gave birth to the idea of Pakistan.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E20 - The Civil Disobedience Campaign
June 1, 2020
33minPG
Now examine the "second round" of Indian nationalist action against the British Raj. Witness the effects on India of the global economic depression after 1929, which triggered the Civil Disobedience Campaign, a massive boycotting of British goods, services, and institutions. Assess the Raj's countertactic of extending constitutional concessions to stem nationalist agitation.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E21 - Britain and Its Empire in the 1940s
June 1, 2020
31minPG
Witness how Britain's wartime mobilization alienated the Indian National Congress and took a horrific toll on the Indian poor. Study the resulting Quit India Movement, the largest uprising against the British since 1857, and the events of the war's aftermath that set the stage for the end of 200 years of colonial rule.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E22 - The Raj on Its Knees (1945 - 1947)
June 1, 2020
30minPG
Investigate the increasing levels of dissent, mutiny, and agrarian suffering and unrest that followed World War II. Chart the astonishing rise of the Muslim League after 1940, its presence in the negotiations for independence, and the League's actions in key provinces that sparked terrible communal violence in the Raj's final days.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E23 - A Split India: Negotiating Independence
June 1, 2020
31minPG
Examine the factors in Britain's decision to "quit" India. Take account of the final negotiations between the National Congress, the Muslim League, and the British, noting the contrasting visions of an independent India held by the Congress and the League. Grasp how Hindu-Muslim violence affected the ultimate partition of India and Pakistan.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
S1 E24 - Reflections on Postcolonial India
June 1, 2020
31minPG
Learn about the harrowing events following Partition, which saw widespread killings and the largest displacement of human populations in history. Assess what the events of 1947 meant for the Indian National Congress, Pakistanis, and the British. Finally, reflect on the lasting legacy of the British Raj and its rule of India.
Included with your The Great Courses Signature Collection subscription
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