A Passage to India: From Aryans to Empire

India is the only country left with a living Indo-European religious tradition. In this documentary I look at some ancient Hindu temples around Mysore, Chamundeshwari and others at Talakadu, all associated with the cursed Wodeyar dynasty. Then I head to the Nilgiri hills where my family used to live in the days of the British Raj. I visit the Ooty club in Udagamandalam of which my relative Cecil Ralph Townsend Congreve was once a member. I interview a member of the Toda tribe who practices a Dravidian form
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