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This episode explores the history of Kanhoji Angre who is called both a pirate and a Maratha naval leader. Was Angre the fierce and dreaded Angria pirate or was he the Admiral of the Maratha Empire?
European pirates in the Indian Ocean were a menace for European East India trading companies as much as Indian rulers, the Mughals and the Marathas, of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this episode, we discuss the life of pirates in the Indian Ocean and the companies that chased them, thinking of piracy as more than just thievery in the seas.
She was a courtesan, concubine, warrior, Mughal noble, leader, survivor. We discuss the interesting life of a nineteenth-century woman figure, Begum Samru.
Shilpa Menon provides the complex history of female impersonation and gendered performances in South Asia, and its relevance to contemporary issues of marginalization of minorities.
A discussion of the 12th century treatise on royalty, court life and pleasure—Manasollasa—written by King Someshwara III, ruler of the Western Chalukyan empire.
Was Empress Nur Jahan a feminist? Was she a conniving wannabe? We explore the truths and myths about Nur Jahan, the twentieth wife of Mughal Emperor Jahangir and the only empress of Mughal India.
Show notes for the podcast Tipu Sultan, The Tiger of Mysore.
Manamee Guha and Deepthi Murali discuss Indian objects and the politics of representation and empire at The Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, London.
