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A History of the World in 100 Objects

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Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retells humanity's history through objects

Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, narrates 100 programmes that retell humanity's history through the objects we have made.

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A History of the World in 100 Objects: Tolerance and Intolerance (AD 1550-1700): Miniature of a Mughal Prince

Miniature of a Mughal prince

Miniature of a Mughal Prince

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Neil MacGregor with a miniature painting from Mughal India.

Neil MacGregor is exploring the co-existence of faiths across the globe around 400 years ago. Today, he is with a miniature painting from Mughal India.

This week Neil MacGregor's history of the world is looking at the co-existence of faiths - peaceful or otherwise - across the globe around 400 years ago. Today he is in one of the great Islamic empires of the 16th and 17th centuries - in Mughal India. He tells the story of the Mughal rulers and their relationship with Hindu India through a miniature painting (dated around 1610) that shows an encounter between a noble man and a holy man. Neil describes an early mood of religious tolerance and the development of this exquisite art form. Asok Kumar Das discusses the function of miniature painting in India and the historian Aman Nath reflects on encounters between holy men and men of political power throughout Indian history.

Producer: Anthony Denselow


A History of the World in 100 Objects: Tolerance and Intolerance (AD 1550-1700)

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Neil MacGregor tells how the great religions lived together in the C16th and C17th.

Neil MacGregor charts the relationships between faiths across the globe around 400 years ago, looking at objects from India and Central America, Europe and Indonesia.

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