简介：Bharat Ek Khoj (Hindi: भारत एक खोज, Urdu: بھارت ایک کھوج, English: The Discovery of India) is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India (1946) by Jawaharlal Nehru, that dramatically unfolds the 5000 year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of independence in 1947. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. Benegal's regular script collaborator Shama Zaidi also co-wrote the script.The series dramatically unfolds and explores the five-thousand year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of the independence in 1947. It's cast include Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Tom Alter and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. Jawaharlal Nehru was portrayed by Roshan Seth, who had previously portrayed Nehru in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982). While Seth enacted the part of Nehru as the story-teller at key points in every episode, Om Puri provided the narration.The drama was previously aired in DD Bharati and currently runs on Lok Sabha TV.List of episodesBharat Mata Ki JaiThe BeginningsThe Arrival of the Vedic People (the Rigveda)Caste FormationMahabharata Part 1Mahabharata Part 2Ramayana Part 1Ramayana Part 2Republics and KingdomsNegation and Acceptance of LifeChanakya and Chandragupta Part 1Chanakya and Chandragupta Part 2Ashoka Part 1Ashoka Part 2The Sangam Period: Silapaddirakam Part 1The Sangam Period: Silapaddirakam Part 2The Classical AgeKalidas and Shakuntala Part 1Kalidas and Shakuntala Part 2HarshavardhanaBhaktiThe Chola Empire Part 1The Chola Empire Part 2The Delhi Sultanate and Prithviraj Raso Part 1The Delhi Sultanate and Prithviraj Raso Part 2The Delhi Sultanate and PadmavatSynthesisThe Vijayanagar EmpireFeudalismThe Fall of the Vijayanagar EmpireRana Sanga, Ibrahim Lodi and BaburAkbar Part 1 (Din-e-Ilahi)Akbar Part 2Golden HindAurangzeb Part 1Aurangzeb Part 2Shivaji Part 1Shivaji Part 2Company BahadurTipu SultanThe Bengal Renaissance and Raja Ram Mohan Roy1857 Part 11857 Part 2Indigo RevoltMahatma PhuleSir Syed Ahmed KhanVivekanandaExtremists and ModeratesAnd Gandhi Came Part 1And Gandhi Came Part 2SeparatismDo or DieEpilogue
