Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
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Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
The history of India told through the lives of 50 phenomenal people.
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Dhirubhai Ambani: Fins
Professor Sunil Khilnani from the King's India Institute in London, on the life and legacy of the Indian business tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of...
MF Husain: Hindustan Is Free
Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in London, looks at controversy over the Indian artist MF Husain, who spent the last days o...
Charan Singh: A Common Cause
Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in London, explores the life and legacy of Charan Singh, the lawyer turned politician who ch...
Satyajit Ray: India without Elephants
Sunil Khilnani explores the life and work of filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
In the history of Indian cinema, there is a Before Ray, and an After. As Su...
Indira Gandhi: The Centre of Everything
Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in London, looks at the life of Indira Gandhi, India's first woman prime minister, whose dar...
Subbulakshmi: Opening Rosebuds
Sunil Khilnani explores the life of south Indian singer MS Subbulakshmi.
Subbulakshmi’s singing voice, striking from the start, would ultimately...
Krishna Menon: Sombre Porcupine
Professor Sunil Khinani, from the King's India Institute in London, looks at the life of Krishna Menon, the abrasive Indian diplomat and statesman who...
Sheikh Abdullah: Chains of Gold
Sunil Khilnani explores the life of Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, the Lion of Kashmir.
Born in Srinagar as a burden, Abdullah’s father died before h...
Raj Kapoor: The Politics of Love
Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute, looks at the life of the celebrated actor and movie director Raj Kapoor who attracted a hu...
Bhimrao Ambedkar: Building Palaces on Dung Heaps
Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute, looks at the life of Bhimrao Ambedkar, champion of the community previously known as 'untou...
Manto: The Unsentimentalist
Sunil Khilnani explores the life and work of India's master of the short story Saadat Hasan Manto.
Manto didn't fuss much over his sente...
Jinnah: The Chess Player
Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in London, looks at the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Des...
Gandhi: In The Palm of Our Hands
Professor Sunil Khilnani explores the life and legacy of the Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, politician and leader of the nationalist movement against British...
Subhas Chandra Bose: A Touch of the Abnormal
Sunil Khilnani explores the life of political leader and freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose.
When Bose's father named his ninth child S...
Amrita Sher-Gil: This is Me
Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the painter Amrita Sher-Gil – 20th century India’s first art star – who died under shrouded circumstances in 1941 at...
Iqbal: Death for Falcons
Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the poet and philosopher Sir Muhammad Iqbal.
One of India’s most patriotic, eloquent writers, Iqbal is also ce...
Periyar: Sniper of Sacred Cows
Sunil Khilnani tells the story of EV Ramaswamy Naicker, known to his followers as Thanthai Periyar: the Great Man – a self-conscious dig at his nemesi...
Visvesvaraya: Extracting Moonbeams from Cucumbers
Sunil Khilnani explores the life and work of engineer, planner and politician Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya.
Visvesvaraya was a frail bureaucrat who...
Tagore: Unlocking Cages
Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the Bengali writer and thinker Rabindranath Tagore.
Born in 1861 To a prosperous Bengal family, Rabindranath T...
Ramanujan: The Elbow of Genius
Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
We are accustomed to mathematicians as enigmatic beings, but the case o...
Chidambaram Pillai: Swadeshi Steam
Sunil Khilnani explores the thwarted revolutionary ambitions of Chidambaram Pillai.
Chidambaram Pillai was a feisty baby-faced lawyer from Tutic...
Annie Besant: An Indian Tomtom
Sunil Khilnani explores the journey of Annie Besant, from late Victorian campaigner and social reformer in England to leader of India’s Congress Party...
Jamsetji Tata: Swadeshi Capitalist
Professor Sunil Khilnani explores the life and legacy of the industrialist Jamsetji Tata, one of a series of remarkable individuals who have made Indi...
Vivekananda: Bring All Together
Sunil Khilnani explores the life and work of Swami Vivekananda, a social and religious reformer who became India’s first global guru, credited with in...
Deen Dayal: Courtier with a Camera
Professor Sunil Khilnani returns with Incarnations. In the first programme he profiles the pioneering photographer Lala Deen Dayal.
Born...
Birsa Munda: Have You Been to Chalkad?
Prof. Sunil Khilnani profiles Birsa Munda, the young, charismatic healer who led his tribal community in revolt against the British and whose life, mo...
Jyotirao Phule: The Open Well
A portrait of the social reformer and anti-caste campaigner. Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the India Institute, King's College London, visits Pune wh...
Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi: Badass Queen
Prof. Sunil Khilnani explores the life of Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, the queen who fought against the British and became a heroine of India's 1857 Re...
Rammohan Roy: Humanity in General
Prof. Sunil Khilnani profiles Rammohan Roy, the Bengali scholar and reformer who became a worldwide intellectual celebrity and campaigned against Sati...
William Jones: Enlightenment Moghul
Professor Sunil Khilnani looks at the contribution Sir William Jones made to our understanding of Indian history and culture. Jones set sail for India...
Nainsukh: Owner Transfixed by Goose
Prof. Sunil Khilnani profiles Nainsukh, the 18th century artist whose intimate and engaging portraits of a prince's life created a new vision for Indi...
Shivaji: Dreaming Big
Shivaji was the 17th century warrior-king who challenged the Muslim Moghul Empire and today stands as a symbol of Hindu pride. Prof. Sunil Khilnani ex...
Dara Shikoh: The Meeting Place of the Two Oceans
Prof. Sunil Khilnani profiles one of the most beguiling intellectual figures of his age, a man whose story resonates today as one of India's great 'wh...
Malik Ambar: The Dark Fated One
Prof. Sunil Khilnani profiles the life of Malik Ambar, an Ethiopian slave who rose to become a power-broker and king maker.
Malik Ambar's story...
Akbar: The World and the Bridge
Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in London, tells the story of Akbar, the greatest ruler of the Mughal Empire. Akbar seems to...
Mirabai: I Go the Other Way
Sunil Khilnani tells the story of Mirabai, the 16th century mystic poet who is one of India's most revered saints. Mirabai was born into a conservativ...
Krishnadevaraya: Kingship Is Strange
Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in London, visits Hampi in today's Karnataka, site of the sprawling capital of Krishnadevara...
Guru Nanak: The Discipline of Deeds
Today's Incarnation is a poet who established one of the great world religions: Guru Nanak, the 15th century founder of Sikhism.
Like the Buddha...
Kabir: Offender and Offendables
Today's subject is the low-caste weaver and poet who dared to upturn the social orthodoxies of 15th century India - and who still challenges us today....
Amir Khusro: The Parrot of India
By turns warrior, prisoner of war, court poet and passionate Sufi devotee, Amir Khusro was above all a quick-witted literary survivor. And his ability...