Bharat Ek Khoj

Bharat Ek Khoj
Bharat Ek Khoj DVD cover
Genre	Historical
Created by	Shyam Benegal
Starring	Roshan Seth Om Puri Tom Alter Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Country of origin	India
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	53
Production
Executive producer(s)	Raj Pius
Production company(s)	Doordarshan Sahyadri Films
Broadcast
Original channel	Doordarshan
Original airing	1988

Bharat Ek Khoj (Hindi: भारत एक खोज, Urdu: بھارت ایک کھوج, English: Discovery of India) is a 53-episode television series that dramatically unfolds the 5000 year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of independence in 1947. It is a series of explorations into the different periods of Indian history and was made in 1988 by the writer, director and producer Shyam Benegal with Cinematographer V.K.Murthy The series was based on a book written by historian and the first Prime Minister of independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, titled The Discovery of India.

This series was telecast on Doordarshan. The star cast included Om Puri and Roshan Seth. Pandit Nehru was portrayed by Roshan Seth, who had previously portrayed Nehru in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi in 1982. While Seth enacted the part of Nehru as the story-teller at key points in every episode, Om Puri provided the narration.

List of episodes

1. Bharat Mata Ki Jai
2. The Beginnings
3. The Arrival of the Vedic People (the Rigveda)
4. Caste Formation
5. Mahabharata Part 1
6. Mahabharata Part 2
7. Ramayana Part 1
8. Ramayana Part 2
9. Republics and Kingdoms
10. Negation and Acceptance of Life
11. Chanakya and Chandragupta Part 1
12. Chanakya and Chandragupta Part 2
13. Ashoka Part 1
14. Ashoka Part 2
15. The Sangam Period: Silapaddirakam Part 1
16. The Sangam Period: Silapaddirakam Part 2
17. The Classical Age
18. Kalidas and Shakuntala Part 1
19. Kalidas and Shakuntala Part 2
20. Harshavardhana
21. Bhakti
22. The Chola Empire Part 1
23. The Chola Empire Part 2
24. The Delhi Sultanate and Prithviraj Raso Part 1
25. The Delhi Sultanate and Prithviraj Raso Part 2
26. The Delhi Sultanate and Padmavat
27. Synthesis
28. The Vijayanagar Empire
29. Feudalism
30. The Fall of the Vijayanagar Empire
31. Rana Sanga, Ibrahim Lodi and Babur
32. Akbar Part 1 (Din-e-Ilahi)
33. Akbar Part 2
34. Golden Hind
35. Aurangzeb Part 1
36. Aurangzeb Part 2
37. Shivaji Part 1
38. Shivaji Part 2
39. Company Bahadur
40. Tipu Sultan
41. The Bengal Renaissance and Raja Ram Mohan Roy
42. 1857 Part 1
43. 1857 Part 2
44. Indigo Revolt
45. Mahatma Phule
46. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
47. Vivekananda
48. Extremists and Moderates
49. And Gandhi Came Part 1
50. And Gandhi Came Part 2
51. Separatism
52. Do or Die
53. Epilogue

External links

• Bharat Ek Khoj: Synopsis, Episode Guide and Summaries
• Bharat Ek Khoj at the Internet Movie Database
• Watch All episodes online
• Watch All Episodes