Season
- Season 1 1988-01-03
- Season 0 1988-01-03
Episode
- Episode 1: Bharat Mata Ki Jai
- Episode 2: The Beginnings (Indus Valley Civilization)
- Episode 3: The Arrival of the Vedic People (the Rigveda)
- Episode 4: Caste Formation
- Episode 5: Mahabharata Part 1
- Episode 6: Mahabharata Part 2
- Episode 7: Ramayana Part 1
- Episode 8: Ramayana Part 2
- Episode 9: Republics and Kingdoms
- Episode 10: Negation and Acceptance of Life
- Episode 11: Chanakya and Chandragupta Part 1
- Episode 12: Chanakya and Chandragupta Part 2
- Episode 13: Ashoka Part 1
- Episode 14: Ashoka Part 2
- Episode 15: The Sangam Period: Silapaddirakam Part 1
- Episode 16: The Sangam Period: Silapaddirakam Part 2
- Episode 17: The Classical Age
- Episode 18: Kalidas and Shakuntala Part 1
- Episode 19: Kalidas and Shakuntala Part 2
- Episode 20: Harshavardhana
- Episode 21: Bhakti
- Episode 22: The Chola Empire Part 1
- Episode 23: The Chola Empire Part 2
- Episode 24: The Delhi Sultanate and Prithviraj Raso Part 1
- Episode 25: The Delhi Sultanate and Prithviraj Raso Part 2
- Episode 26: The Delhi Sultanate and Padmavat
- Episode 27: Synthesis
- Episode 28: The Vijayanagar Empire
- Episode 29: Feudalism
- Episode 30: The Fall of the Vijayanagar Empire
- Episode 31: Rana Sanga, Ibrahim Lodi and Babur
- Episode 32: Akbar Part 1 (Din-e Ilahi)
- Episode 33: Akbar Part 2
- Episode 34: Golden Hind
- Episode 35: Aurangzeb Part 1
- Episode 36: Aurangzeb Part 2
- Episode 37: Shivaji Part 1
- Episode 38: Shivaji Part 2
- Episode 39: Company Bahadur (East India Company)
- Episode 40: Tipu Sultan
- Episode 41: The Bengal Renaissance and Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Episode 42: 1857 Part 1
- Episode 43: 1857 Part 2
- Episode 44: Indigo Revolt
- Episode 45: Mahatma Phule
- Episode 46: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
- Episode 47: Vivekananda
- Episode 48: Extremists and Moderates
- Episode 49: And Gandhi Came Part 1
- Episode 50: And Gandhi Came Part 2
- Episode 51: Separatism
- Episode 52: Do or Die
- Episode 53: Epilogue
The Discovery of India
Bharat Ek Khoj is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru, that dramatically unfolds the 5000 year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of independence in 1947. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. Benegal's regular script collaborator Shama Zaidi also co-wrote the script.
