{"product_id":"book-gbvz","title":"Incarnations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe lives and afterlives of 50 incredible Indian people from ancient India to the 21st century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Essential... whoppingly aurally intense' \u003cb\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'... makes the mind fly across time, place and history. You may smile as, mentally, you walk alongside Khilnani up some flinty slope. You will keep thinking about what he said long after.' \u003cb\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorian Sunil Khilnani, Professor of History and Politics at Ashoka University, takes listeners on an immersive, whirlwind journey from ancient India to the 21st century through the life stories of 50 remarkable individuals, exploring their surprising legacies and illuminating both the wonders and the urgent conflicts of India today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the 5th century grammarian Panini, a pioneer in algorithmic thinking, to the wandering poetess Mirabai, challenger of the gender and caste order; from Malik Ambar, a 16th century north African who became a Deccan kingmaker, to Dhirubhai Ambani, the 20th century entrepreneur whose son now ranks among the world's richest billionaires; from Lakshmibai, the 19th century queen who enjoyed weightlifting, wrestling and steeplechasing, and who became a lightning rod for India's attitudes to women, to the contemporary painter M.F. Husain, who shaped a distinctive Indian modernism; Khilnani brings to life an extraordinary panorama of India's most revealing and resonant lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuests featured include Javed Akhtar, one of the great songwriters of Indian cinema, renowned actress Sharmila Tagore, historian Romila Thapar, poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, artists Howard Hodgkin and Bharti Kher, Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, author and political activist Arundhati Roy, and Sanskrit scholar Sheldon Pollock.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the help of these experts, Khilnani investigates the lives of political strategists and social reformers, filmmakers and farmers, mathematicians and religious gurus, warriors and saints, artists and slaves, industry titans and freedom fighters, who have co-existed in a country bound together by its people, in all their differences and commonalities. The chosen lives conjure up an India full of relevance and infinite range, celebrating the variety of the country in all its diversity of thought, religion, politics and art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003eProduction credits\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresented by Sunil Khilnani\u003cbr\u003eProduced by Mark Savage, Jeremy Grange and Martin Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor: Hugh Levinson\u003cbr\u003eMusic composed by: Talvin Singh\u003cbr\u003eResearcher: Manu Pillai\u003cbr\u003eExecutive Producer: Martin Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4 on the following dates:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Buddha: \u003c\/b\u003e11 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMahavira: \u003c\/b\u003e12 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePanini: \u003c\/b\u003e13 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKautilya: \u003c\/b\u003e14 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAshoka: \u003c\/b\u003e15 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharaka: \u003c\/b\u003e18 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAryabhata: \u003c\/b\u003e19 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShankaracharya: \u003c\/b\u003e20 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRajaraja Chola: \u003c\/b\u003e21 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBasavana: \u003c\/b\u003e22 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmir Khusro: \u003c\/b\u003e25 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKabir: \u003c\/b\u003e26 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuru Nanak: \u003c\/b\u003e27 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKrishnadevaraya: \u003c\/b\u003e28 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMirabai: \u003c\/b\u003e29 May 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAkbar: \u003c\/b\u003e1 June 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalik Ambar: \u003c\/b\u003e2 June 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDara Shikoh: \u003c\/b\u003e3 June 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShivaji: \u003c\/b\u003e4 June 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNainsukh: \u003c\/b\u003e5 June 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Jones: \u003c\/b\u003e8 June 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRammohan Roy: \u003c\/b\u003e9 June 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi: \u003c\/b\u003e10 June 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJyotirao Phule: \u003c\/b\u003e11 June 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBirsa Munda: \u003c\/b\u003e12 June 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeen Dayal: \u003c\/b\u003e26 July 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamsetji Tata: \u003c\/b\u003e27 July 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVivekananda: \u003c\/b\u003e28 July 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnie Besant: \u003c\/b\u003e29 July 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChidambaram Pillai: \u003c\/b\u003e30 July 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRamanujan: \u003c\/b\u003e2 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTagore: \u003c\/b\u003e3 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVisvesvaraya: \u003c\/b\u003e4 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeriyar: \u003c\/b\u003e5 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIqbal: \u003c\/b\u003e6 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmrita Sher-Gil: \u003c\/b\u003e9 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSubhas Chandra Bose: \u003c\/b\u003e10 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGandhi: \u003c\/b\u003e11 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJinnah: \u003c\/b\u003e12 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eManto: \u003c\/b\u003e13 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBhimrao Ambedkar: \u003c\/b\u003e16 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaj Kapoor: \u003c\/b\u003e17 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheikh Abdullah: \u003c\/b\u003e18 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKrishna Menon: \u003c\/b\u003e19 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSubbulakshmi: \u003c\/b\u003e20 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndira Gandhi: \u003c\/b\u003e23 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSatyajit Ray: \u003c\/b\u003e24 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharan Singh: \u003c\/b\u003e25 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMF Husain: \u003c\/b\u003e26 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDhirubhai Ambani: \u003c\/b\u003e27 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. 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