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The Story of India [Blu-ray] | ![The Story of India [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51oNIXgCG2L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Jeremy Jeff
Actor: Michael Wood (Writer & Presenter)
Studio: PBS (DIRECT)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 7121
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 360 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: 600
UPC: 841887010467
EAN: 0841887010467
ASIN: B001P72A1E
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: April 14, 2009
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Studio: Public Media Distribution Release Date: 04/14/2009 Run time: 360 minutes
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 The best narration and amazing visuals and a story that is too good !!! February 4, 2010
Srikanth Raghavan (NC, USA)
I am an Indian and I learnt so many things that I did not pay attention during my history classes !!! But the way it has been compiled and presented is marvellous. This is a very good set and I recommend to every one and especially if you are planning to visit India.
Great job by Michael Wood and crew !!! Hats Off !!!
 Nothing but pretty pictures! No content at all...a sugar-coated way of rewriting British History January 25, 2010
AM (Baltimore, MD)
38 out of 48 found this review helpful
This is my review of the DVD version...repeating here for the Blu-Ray Buffs...
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I would rate this -10 if possible! It's full of pretty photography a la NGC and stupid interviews of street vendors and equally ignorant, half-knowing people. It's full of personal impressions and gives very little of factual information. less than what could fit in a 30min documentary.
This so called "Documentary" is spectacularly superficial. Hides millions of atrocities that the British caused in south Asia (for example financial frauds with kings, cheatings, forceful conversions by the so called "fathers").
More Surprisingly Mr. Wood does not mention one single freedom fighter from India apart from Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah!! No Phule, No Gokhale, No Tilak. No Ambedkar. No Netaji. No Azad. No Bhagatsingh, No Lajpat Ray, No Savarkar!!
It completely neglects the important overseas connections of the freedom struggle - like the Gadar party in USA. It neglects role of social reformist movements like Raja Rammohan Roy, Brahmo Samaj, Vidyasagar, Agarkar, Vivekananda, M N Roy and does not even a passing mention Ravindranath Tagore - the first Indian Nobel prize winner and his role in educating Indians.
It does not even mention the role Indians played in First and Second world war.
But very "cutely" it showcases a very "adorable" old historian - whose ancestors worked for British and (hence??) he justifies the British raj in one sentence saying the British gave India its geographical unity!
Thank God, it does not show that the British built the Himalayas for the sake of poor Indians and brought Monsoon with them!
In a very sugar-coated way, the director, claims to love Indian root culture and completely bypasses the large portions of history. Is BBC bent on re-writing Indian history?
Earlier episode 5, completely neglects the Maratha Empire, the Rajput fighters, the Sikh Rebels and Tipu, and the last Mughal emperor who was cheated and forcefully exiled.
It mentions Rani Lakshmibai as "Rani Jhansi" (as if her name was Jhansi!) and cleverly hides what happened to her! (Lord Dalhousie annexed her kingdom with a fraudulent claim saying her adopted son cannot be a heir!)
...and hundreds of other kingdoms that were completely eaten up forcefully by the so called "Queen".
British - barring some glaring exceptions - never treated Indians as even a civilization - forget the vast achievements in literally every field of human activity.
...as for the "united" geographical map, it is torn in three pieces courtesy British. Two of those will perhaps never reconcile and both have already gained Nuclear powers!
Some other examples of British "looting" were the Koh-E-Noor and many historically important pieces and jewelry that lie in London's museums and the reduction in India's share in the World Trade ~23% before British (largest in the world) to less than 1%, the vast number of forceful conversions ! No mention of any of these? I wonder why...
The BBC is trying to completely shrug off the burden of historic blunders that the British people have made, but the world knows better and more than a documentary spanning 200 years of "British efforts of building a united India" as the episodes try to portray!
Great DVD January 20, 2010
Rohit Radhakrishnan (NY)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Thoroughly enjoyed all the episodes. Blue Ray really brings out all the beauty of the places screened. A must have!
 India 101 for beginners December 15, 2009
Amit (New York)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
History of India
I had never known that such a production existed until a family member mentioned it over the phone. I was curious to see how it actually was made and the name BBC made it even more enticing to watch. It seems BBC has done a fine job as a refresher course on India or as a supplement to anyone doing a brief survey on India. If you have never been to India and are not familiar with its history, this video is a great beginning. Michael Wood is very enthusiastic and takes us too many remote places even Indians would not like to go. The music is OK and I just have a single grouse and that is that the film clippings that they used in the movie could have been better selected but a fine effort it is nevertheless to cover the entire survey on India in two parts. I gave it three stars 121509
Amazing visuals Amazing soundtrack December 3, 2009
Anurag Bhalla (Orange County, CA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is like a refresher course in Indian history..presented in a very entertaining way. I am going to send copies for my cousins back home. They are going to love it.
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