| Episode |
Title |
Cast |
Role |
Notes
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| 1
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"Bharat Mata Ki Jai"[5]
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Roshan Seth
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Jawaharlal Nehru[6]
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| 2
|
"The Beginnings"
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Harish Patel, Lalit Mohan Tiwari, Pallavi Joshi
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Draha, Shulgi, Atri
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A street play based on the Epic of Gilgamesh is also depicted in the episode.[7]
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| 3
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"The Arrival of the Vedic People"
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Anang Desai, K K Raina, Ravi Jhankal
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Sardar, Suteja, Bajbandha
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| 4
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"Caste Formation"
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Anang Desai, Salim Ghouse, K K Raina, Lalit Mohan Tiwari, Inayatullah Kantroo, Anuradha Tarafdar, Ila Arun
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Chandraprabha, Rama, Narada, Arjuna, Dhanpal, Dhanvati, Sheelvati
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Story of Shambuka from Ramayana and Ekalavya from Mahabharata were also part of this episode.
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| 5,6
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"Mahabharata" Part 1
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Teejan Bai, Salim Ghouse, Om Puri, Sujata Mehta, Pankaj Berry, Ila Arun, Salim Ghouse, Sulakshana Khatri
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Krishna, Duryodhana, Draupadi, Shakuni, Aswatthama, Gandhari
|
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| "Mahabharata" Part 2
|
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| 7,8
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"Ramayana" Part 1[6]
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Om Puri, Pallavi Joshi, Salim Ghouse[6] , Pankaj Berry, Ravi Jhankal
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Sita, Rama, Bharata, Lakshmana
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| "Ramayana" Part 2
|
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| 9
|
"Republics and Kingdoms"
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Virendra Saxena, K K Raina
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Mahaanaman, Virudhaka
|
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| 10
|
"Negation and Acceptance of Life"
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Dhruv Ghanekar, Aanjjan Srivastav, Om Puri, Ashutosh Gowariker
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Nachiketa, Yamaraja, Angulimaal, Gautam Buddha
|
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| 11, 12
|
"Chanakya and Chandragupta" Part 1
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Satyadev Dubey, Ravi Jhankal, Mita Vashisht, Aanjjan Srivastav
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Chanakya, Chanragupta, Suhasini
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| "Chanakya and Chandragupta" Part 2
|
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| 13, 14
|
"Ashoka" Part 1
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Om Puri, K.K.Raina, Ila Arun, Lucky Ali (credited as Maqsoom Ali)
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Ashoka, Radhagupta, Asandhimitra, Prince Tissa
|
|
| "Ashoka" Part 2
|
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| 15, 16
|
"The Sangam Period: Silapaddikaram" Part 1
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Pallavi Joshi, Sulabha Deshpande, Virendra Saxena Rakesh Dhar
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Kannaki, Kovalan, Kavundi, Pandit
|
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| "The Sangam Period: Silapaddikaram" Part 2
|
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| 17
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"The Classical Age"
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Anjan Srivastav, Harish Patel, Aparjita Krishna
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Sansthanaka, Nai, Vasantsena
|
|
| 18 , 19
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"Kalidas and Shakuntala" Part 1
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Ravi Jhankal, Pallavi Joshi, Virendra Saxena
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Kalidas, Mallika, Matul
|
Excerpts from plays Ashadh Ka Ek Din by Mohan Rakesh and Shakuntala (play) by Kalidasa were used in this episode.
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| "Kalidas and Shakuntala" Part 2
|
| 20
|
"Harshavardhana"
|
Pankaj Berry, K Makhija, Aparajita
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Harshavardhana, Prabhakar Vardhana, Queen
|
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| 21
|
"Bhakti"
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Vijay Kashyap, Rajesh Vivek, Mita Vashisht, Harish Patel
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Mahendravarman I, Kapalin, Devasoma, Buddhist Monk
|
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| 22
|
"The Chola Empire" Part 1
|
Om Puri, Devendre Malhotra, Sunila Pradhan, Shantanu Chaparia
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Raja Raja Chola, Ishanashiva, Mahadevi, Tirumala
|
|
| 23
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"The Chola Empire" Part 2
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Om Puri, Devendre Malhotra, Sunila Pradhan, Shantanu Chaparia
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Raja Raja Chola, Ishanashiva, Mahadevi, Tirumala
|
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| 24
|
"The Delhi Sultanate" Part 1:The Arrival of Turk-Afghans and Prithviraj Raso
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K.K. Raina, Vijay Kashyap, Ravi Jhankal, Ahmed Khan, Irrfan Khan, Achyut Potdar, Vijay Kashyap
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Muhammad Ghori, Chand Bardai, Prithviraj Chauhan, Mahmud Ghazni, Ferdowsi, Al-Biruni
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| 25
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"The Delhi Sultanate" Part 2: Prithviraj Raso and Alauddin Khilji
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K.K. Raina, Vijay Kashyap, Ravi Jhankal, Achyut Potdar, Om Puri, Rajendra Gupta, Seema Kelkar
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Muhammad Ghori, Chand Bardai, Makwana, Alauddin Khilji, Ratan Singh, Padmavati
|
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| 26
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"The Delhi Sultanate" Part 3: Padmavat and Tughlaq dynasty[8]
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Om Puri, Rajendra Gupta, Seema Kelkar,
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Alauddin Khalji, Ratan Singh, Padmavati
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| 27
|
"Synthesis"
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Pankaj Berry
|
Lorik
[Lubna salim] chanda
[Maina]
Aparajita
|
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| 28
|
"The Vijayanagar Empire"
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Om Puri, Salim Ghouse, Aanjjan Srivastav, Fr. Tasso
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Krishna Deva Raya, Aliya Rama Raya, Appaji, Domingo Paes
|
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| 29
|
"Feudalism"[9]
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Salim Ghouse, Ila Arun, Pallavi Joshi, Siraj Khan, Ajay Kumar
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Aliya Rama Raya, Heggaditi, Mallige, Saguna, Achyuta Deva Raya
|
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| 30
|
"The Fall of the Vijayanagar Empire"
|
Salim Ghouse, Anang Desai, Pankaj Berry, Ahmed Khan, Arjun Raina
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Aliya Rama Raya, Effendi Aslam Bain, Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali, Hussain Nizam Shah I, Ali Adil Shah I
|
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| 31
|
"Rana Sanga, Ibrahim Lodi and Babur"
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Ravi Jhankal, Anang Desai, Lalit Mohan Tiwari, Mushtaq Khan, Vishal Singh
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Rana Sanga, Ibrahim Lodi, Babur
|
|
| 32, 33
|
"Akbar" Part 1 (Din-e Ilahi)
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Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Ila Arun, Aparajita Bhushan, Puneet Issar, Surendra Pal, Harish Patel, Irrfan Khan, Rajesh Vivek, Pankaj Berry, Vijay Arora, Virendra Saxena, Arun Bakshi, Deepraj Rana
|
Akbar, Jahangir, Jodhabai, Maharana Pratap, Man Singh I
|
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| "Akbar" Part 2
|
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| 34
|
"Golden Hind"
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Sudhir Kulkarni, Vijay Arora, Ajit Vachhani, Mushtaq Khan
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Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Thomas Roe
|
|
| 35 ,36
|
"Aurangzeb" Part 1
|
Om Puri, Sudhir Dalvi, Surendra Pal, Surekha Sikri, Navtej Hundal, Dharmesh Tiwari
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Aurangzeb, Dara Shikoh, Murad Bakhsh, Shah Shuja, Jahanara Begum, Shah Jahan
|
|
| "Aurangzeb Part" 2
|
| 37 ,38
|
"Shivaji" Part 1
|
Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Anang Desai, Achyut Potdar,[10] Ahmed Khan
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Shivaji, Jijabai, Dadoji Kondadev, Chandrarao More, Afzal Khan, Aurangzeb,
|
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| "Shivaji" Part 2
|
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| 39
|
"Company Bahadur" (East India Company)
|
Amrish Puri, Rajendra, Jalal Agha, Tom Alter, Vishal Singh, John Holyer
|
Robert Clive, Najimuddin Ali Khan, Shuja-ud-Daula, Maharaja Nandakumar, Shah Alam II, Diwani Rights
|
|
| 40
|
"Tipu Sultan"
|
Salim Ghouse, Vijay Kashyap, Ravi Jhankal, Shreechand Makhija, Tom Alter, John Holyer
|
Tipu Sultan, Purnaiah, Mir Sadiq, Mahadji Scindia, Nana Phadnavis
|
|
| 41
|
"The Bengal Renaissance and Raja Ram Mohan Roy"
|
Anang Desai, Urmila Bhatt, Ravi Jhankal, Tom Alter, John Holyer
|
Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Lord William Bentinck, Bann on Sati (practice)
|
|
| 42, 43
|
"1857" Part 1
|
Om Puri, Ravi Jhankal, Piyush Mishra, Mohan Gokhale, Anang Desai, Ratna Pathak Shah, Aanjjan Srivastav, Pankaj Berry, Virendra Razdan, Tom Alter, John Holyer, Bob Christo
|
Bahadur Shah Zafar, Nanasaheb Peshwa, Wajid Ali Shah, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Tantia Tope, Rani Lakshmibai, Azimullah Khan, Bakht Khan, Mangal Pandey, Lord Dalhousie
|
|
| "1857" Part 2
|
| 44
|
"Indigo Revolt"
|
Virendra Saxena, Tom Alter, Vijay Kashyap
|
Madhav
|
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| 45
|
"Mahatma Phule"
|
Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Mohan Gokhale, Shubhangi Gokhale, Achyut Potdar, Ashok Banthia
|
Mahatma Phule, Savitribai Phule, Satyashodak Samaj
|
|
| 46
|
"Sir Syed Ahmed Khan"
|
Mohan Maharishi, Irrfan Khan
|
|
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| 47
|
"Vivekananda"
|
Alok Nath
|
Swami Vivekananda
|
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| 48
|
"Extremists and Moderates"
|
Sudhir Kulkarni, Mohan Gokhale, Tom Alter, Achyut Potdar, Kishor Kadam
|
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Chapekar brothers, Murder of Walter Charles Rand
|
|
| 49
|
"And Gandhi Came" Part 1
|
Om Puri, Ila Arun, Piyush Mishra, Shabana Azmi, Pallavi Joshi, Akhilendra Mishra
|
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| 50
|
"And Gandhi Came" Part 2
|
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| 51
|
"Separatism"
|
S M Zaheer, K K Raina, Harish Patel, Irrfan Khan
|
|
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| 52
|
"Do or Die"
|
Pankaj Berry, Om Puri, Lucky Ali
|
Quit India Movement
|
|
| 53
|
Epilogue
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