In an interview to The Hindu Michael Wood said , " One that 's 2,000 years old like ancient Greece or Rome , Tamil is the last living classical Indian language.The first surviving work in Tamil , a 300 BC book on linguistics , refers to an already existing culture . Tamil is older than any modern European language . I wanted to remind Western-centric audiences , who implicitly assume the superiority of Western modes of thought , that Tamil is one of 23 official Indian languages , with a literature comparable to any in the West . It makes viewers sit up and question their assumptions " . 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 Mughals . Mahmud 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 . < ! -- This episode examines the British Raj and India 's struggle for freedom . Wood reveals how , in South India , a global corporation came to control much of the subcontinent , and explores the magical culture of Lucknow , discovering the enigmatic Briton who helped found the freedom movement . He traces the Amritsar massacre , the rise of Gandhi and Nehru , and the events that led to the Partition of India in 1947
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