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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and welcome to a brand new podcast called Empire with me and Eta Arnand.

And me, William Durumpel.

Now in a funny way, we are both products of Empire.

I mean you could say very simplistically, I'm the Indian in Britain, I mean of Indian of. of And why are we actually doing this?

Well, I think it's a very interesting moment to think about empire.

It's particularly an interesting moment to think about the British Empire and the British Empire in India

because this is something which I certainly feel got sort of tucked in an attic in 1947

The British moved on they joined the European community

They like to feel that they'd left their imperial pass behind them.

They turned into a different sort of nation, but they certainly forgot

about the most important thing the Brits ever did in world history and certainly my generation

going to school would learn about the the Roman Empire we'd learn about all sorts of

empires but we wouldn't learn about the British Empire.

Well I mean you know I've been to school dare I say it a bit more recently than you, but we, not a sniff of it, and it's really strange because, you know, we do the second world war, we do the commemorations of the first world war.

This is something that was as recent or more recent and was an enormous chapter in

Britain's history but is it because Empire is a dirty word these days is

that why? Well I think Empire is a very controversial word and that's in a sense another

reason for doing the the podcast because for some people particularly I think a

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