The story of India 5/7

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Episode 5 - "The Meeting of Two Oceans"

The documentary series about the history of India charts the coming of Islam to the subcontinent and one of the greatest ages of world civilisation: the MughalsMahmud of Ghazni leads an expedition to Somnath and destroys the temple of Shiva and all idols there. Michael Wood visits Sufi shrines in Old Delhi, desert fortresses in Rajasthan and the cities of Lahore and Agra, where he offers a new theory on the design of the Taj Mahal. He also looks at the life of Akbar, a Muslim emperor who decreed that no one religion could hold the ultimate truth, but whose dream of unity ended in civil war. In the narrative he movingly describes the murder of Darah Shikuh.