Forty Years of Indian Independence
A five-part series in which the BBC's Delhi correspondent, MarkTully, charts India s progress in the four decades since the British left. Ranging from the stately corridors of power to the teeming pavements and villages outside, his view of the sub-continent combines archive material and personal reminiscence with the sounds and voices of contemporary India.
1:Revolution by ConsentHow India's first Prime
Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru , tried to lay the foundations of a secular, democratic and industrialised nation-state amid the shambles of partition and the rapid British withdrawal. Series producer ZAREER MASANI
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