A free, growing library on India for an international audience, recorded videos and university seminars, from social structure to cinema, economics, history, and religion.
An introduction to the caste system's historical roots and its place in contemporary Indian society.
Watch on YouTubeHow family structure and kinship norms shape social organization across India's regions.
Watch on YouTubeThe gap between India's fast-growing cities and its villages, and what's bridging it.
Watch on YouTubeFrom colonial-era social reform to contemporary Indian feminism.
Watch on YouTubeHow India's film industries, from Mumbai to the regional studios, shape and reflect national identity.
Watch on YouTubeIndia's other film industries, and how they differ from Bollywood in style and reach.
Watch on YouTubeHow streaming platforms are reshaping who tells India's stories, and how.
Watch on YouTubeInside the world's largest news media landscape, print, television, and digital.
Watch on YouTubeFrom liberalization to the digital economy, the forces behind India's growth and its open questions.
Watch on YouTubeThe vast informal sector that employs most of India, and the challenges it faces.
Watch on YouTubeHow Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Delhi-NCR became global centers of the startup economy.
Watch on YouTubeThe challenges and reforms shaping India's farmers and rural economy.
Watch on YouTubeOne of the world's earliest urban civilizations, and its lasting imprint on the subcontinent.
Watch on YouTubeThree centuries of Mughal rule and its lasting mark on India's art, language, and architecture.
Watch on YouTubeA university seminar on the struggle for independence and the trauma of Partition in 1947.
Seminar DetailsHow independent India built its institutions, from the Constitution to its first decades of policy.
Watch on YouTubeHinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Islam in India, coexistence and living tradition.
Watch on YouTubeCore concepts and everyday practice across Hinduism's many traditions.
Watch on YouTubeHow two of the world's major religions began, and where they remain living traditions in India today.
Watch on YouTubeDevotional movements that shaped religious coexistence across the subcontinent.
Watch on YouTubeA university seminar on the world's largest democracy: federalism, elections, and governance.
Seminar DetailsHow the Constitution balances a strong center with 28 states and their own governments.
Watch on YouTubeFrom the Non-Aligned Movement to India's role in today's multipolar world.
Watch on YouTubeHow democracy works at the village level, through elected local councils.
Watch on YouTubeThe classical schools, Vedānta, Sāṃkhya, Nyāya, and Buddhist thought, explained for newcomers.
Watch on YouTubeGandhi, Vivekananda, and Ambedkar, three thinkers who shaped modern India's ideas of self and society.
Watch on YouTubeYoga as a philosophical system, not just a physical practice, from Patañjali to today.
Watch on YouTubeHow Vedānta's schools have approached the nature of self, reality, and liberation.
Watch on YouTubeFrom Sanskrit to the modern regional languages, a linguistic map of the subcontinent.
Watch on YouTubeThe language behind India's classical texts, and its influence far beyond them.
Watch on YouTubeA tour of India's modern literary traditions across its major languages.
Watch on YouTubeThe storytelling, folk song, and oral epics passed down outside the written record.
Watch on YouTubeAn introduction to Ayurveda's principles and its place in India's national healthcare system today.
Watch on YouTubeThe world's only government ministry dedicated exclusively to traditional and alternative medicine.
Watch on YouTubeBeyond Ayurveda, the other classical medical traditions still practiced across India.
Watch on YouTubeYoga's clinical and preventive-health applications, beyond its philosophical and spiritual dimensions.
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