This is the complete history of Medieval India — one of the greatest, most dramatic,
and most underrated civilizations in human history. From the fall of the Gupta Empire
to the rise of the Maratha kingdom, this video covers a thousand years of ingenuity,
resilience, catastrophe, and breathtaking beauty across the Indian subcontinent.

What you'll discover in this video:

— How medieval India produced more wealth than Europe and China combined at its peak
— The Chola Empire's extraordinary naval expedition of 1025 CE — the largest ever
  launched from the subcontinent — that reshaped Southeast Asia
— The two Battles of Tarain (1191–1192) that ended the Rajput world and changed
  India forever
— The Delhi Sultanate — founded by a former slave — that stopped the Mongols when
  no one else could
— Razia Sultan, the first female ruler in Indian history, and what her story tells
  us about power
— Alauddin Khilji's radical price-fixing system that economists still study 700
  years later
— Vijayanagara — the City of Victory — possibly the largest city on earth in the
  15th century, and the single morning in 1565 that destroyed it
— Babur, the homesick conqueror who founded the Mughal Empire and wrote about
  missing fruit from his hometown in his personal diary
— Akbar — the illiterate emperor who dreamed of universal religious peace and
  ordered massacres in the same lifetime
— The Taj Mahal — what it actually is, and what it cost
— Shivaji and the Maratha resistance that brought the greatest empire in Asia
  to its knees

This is not a textbook summary. This is the full human story, the love, the
ambition, the cruelty, the genius, and the resilience of the people who built
one of the most extraordinary civilizations the world has ever produced.

SOURCES & FURTHER READING:
— Romila Thapar, Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 (Penguin, 2002)
— John Keay, India: A History (Harper Press, 2000)
— Abraham Eraly, The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate (Penguin, 2014)
— Abraham Eraly, The Mughal Throne (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003)
— Babur, Baburnama (trans. Wheeler Thackston, Modern Library, 2002)
— Vidya Dehejia, Indian Art (Phaidon, 1997)
— Hermann Kulke & Dietmar Rothermund, A History of India (Routledge, 2004)
— Burton Stein, Vijayanagara (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
— Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battuta (trans. H.A.R. Gibb, Hakluyt Society)
— Sunday Observer account of Domingo Paes' visit to Vijayanagara (c. 1520)
— Dirk Kolff, Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
— Richard Eaton, A Social History of the Deccan (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

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