Echoes Of India: A History Podcast
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Echoes Of India: A History Podcast
Echoes of India is the story of India like you've never heard it before. Host Anirudh Kanisetti takes you on a journey through its wonders, from the Greek art of Afghanistan to the thriving ports of Tamil Nadu. Along the way, monks debate, queens boast, and armies roar. From philosophy to poli...
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Beloved of the Gods: Ashoka Maurya in His Time and Ours
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The Emperor is Naked: How History Forgot the Ajivikas and Remembered the Mauryas
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Alexander the Brute: Building Empires in the Ancient World
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Thrones of Blood: Ajatashatru's Wars and the First Buddhist Council
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The Great Extinguishing: Memories of the Death of Buddha and the Rise of Magadha
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So I Have Heard From the Blessed One: Anirudh Speaks to the Buddha
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Nun of Your Business: Women, Society, and the Sangha in Early Buddhism
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Buddha the Prophet: The Republics, Slaves and Ethics of Early India
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Gargi's Fires: Gender, Caste, Rebirth, and the Metaphysics of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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Buddha Goes to Sarnath: How Cities and Civilisations are Born
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Harsha's Laughter
What happened in India after the fall of the Gupta Empire? Some of the most incredible states and people in the subcontinent's history emerged. This i...
End of an Era
This is the story of the Hun who tried to be an Indian emperor, and a story of the human costs of war: a story of grief, destruction, and of creation...
A Day in Ancient Ujjain
What was life in an ancient Indian city like? What were its sights and smells, and what kind of eccentric characters would it have been home to? Join...
When The Huns Invaded India
In the 5th century, two of the ancient world's superpowers - Rome and India - were threatened by massive migrations of nomadic peoples. But while the...
A Game of Thrones and Temples
The same century that saw the collapse of the Western Roman Empire also saw the rise of the great temple-building movements that transformed India's s...
A Chinese Monk in Ancient India
How did South Asian Buddhism catch on in China? How did the interaction between South and East Asia shape the intellectual and economic evolution of E...
A Forgotten Queen
The 5th century Queen Prabhavati-Gupta, daughter and granddaughter of kings, mother and grandmother of Queens, was one of the most remarkable women in...
Vishnu on Earth
This is the story of the spectacular Gupta astro-religio-political node of Udayagiri, where, in the 5th century CE, a new idea of Indian kingship was...
Language of the Gods
How did Sanskrit become a language of power and knowledge, patronized by everyone from kings to monks through half of Asia for a thousand years? This...
King Of Kings
The Season 2 premiere of Echoes of India begins with the rise of the Himalaya mountains and ends with the victorious campaigns of the mighty North Ind...
Season Finale: Rise and Fall
The Season 1 Finale of Echoes of India is a rollercoaster ride through 600 years of Indian history, of the rise and fall of empires and ideas until th...
Maitreya the Messiah
At the same time that Christianity and other savior cults emerged in West Asia, ancient India had its own Buddhist savior. This was Maitreya, the Budd...
A Buddhist Shahenshah
A Central Asian king revered by Indians as the Second Ashoka? This is the story of the ruthless conqueror Kanishka, who led the Kushan Empire to its a...
Kushana, Son of God
This is the story of the rise of the Kushan Empire: the most powerful South Asian state since the fall of the Mauryan Empire. Episode 9 of Echoes of I...
The Lost City of the Tamils
This is the story of the jewel of ancient South India: the great Tamil trading city of Puhar. Episode 8 of Echoes of India brings to life a city sung...
A South Indian Buddha
How did Buddhism catch on in South India? Episode 7 of Echoes of India explores the life of the Andhra teacher Nagarjuna, called a "Second Buddha", hi...
The War of the Words
How did languages shape the way ancient Indians thought and behaved? Episode 6 of Echoes of India recounts the dramatic evolution of Sanskrit and Prak...
The Shadow of Andhra's Stupas
This is the story of how South India's grandest Buddhist monument was built: the story of a time when Buddhism dominated the Indian subcontinent, and...
An Indian Lady in Ancient Rome
1900 years after she was carved, an Indian ivory statuette was uncovered in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. How did she come there, and how much ha...
The Glory of a Deccan Queen
History is written by kings. What if a queen could tell us her story?
In this episode, the rush of Central Asian nomads into India is halted by...
Buddha Goes to Afghanistan
Sometimes, the most beautiful art is paid for by the most brutal of conquerors. This is the story of how ancient India's most remarkably globalised ar...
The Greeks Who Became Indians
Most histories of post-Vedic India start with Alexander the Great and then start with the story of North India under the Mauryas. But this story stays...
Introduction
Echoes is a history podcast like no other. It's by Indians, about Indians, for Indians: A 700-year journey from the invasion of Alexander to the Gupta...