Meeting of Two Oceans, The (5/6)
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| Subjects: Anthropology, History, India, Science, Social Studies, World Religions | ||||
At the Taj Mahal (just voted one of the new Seven Wonders of the World by 100 million voters worldwide), he demolishes an old myth about the Taj and offers a startling new theory about its construction. Exploring the legacy of the Moghul empire that stretched across today's political borders, Michael Wood tells the tale of the early Moghuls, starting with the redoubtable Babur, founder of the dynasty, and his grandson Akbar the Great, 'one of the very greatest figures in history', a Muslim king who tried to make India a multi racial and multi-religious state. His aim was to achieve a Hindu-Muslim equilibrium based on the brotherhood of mankind with no one religion holding the ultimate truth - a message for our own time if ever there was one. The story of the Moghuls has some of the most fascinating characters in all of history, but ends in tragedy as two brothers fought over Akbar's legacy in a battle that in the end broke Akbar's dream. Waiting in the wings to pick over the spoils were the British. |
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