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All tagged Mughal Empire
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.
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.
