Hello and welcome back.

After the huge success of the mini series on Queen Mary the First, I invited back Dr. Johanna Strong,

and she has brought to us another great topic.

I hope you enjoy.

The Tudors Dynasty podcast.

Thank you. Podcast. Welcome back to the Tudor's Dynasty Podcasts Dynasty podcast mini-series on a queenship.

I am your host, Dr. Johanna Strong, and in this series, we are traveling through time and around the world to learn more about global queenship.

On the episode today, I am joined by Annie Joseph, who's going to tell us all about the beagums of Bhopal and queenship in India.

She's completing a PhD at the Institute of English at the University of Kerala working on gender and sovereignty in colonial India.

And she is a Charles Wallace Fellow.

Her research works to retrieve and recover the history of women in power in colonial India, which makes her a perfect guest for our mini-series on Global

Queenship. So thank you so much for joining us today. I'm very excited for our conversation.

Thank you so much, Dr. Strong, for inviting me all over. Thank you.

My pleasure. So I guess let's dive right in. Can you tell us a little bit about you and what your PhD project is?

As you have already mentioned, I'm currently pursuing my PhD at In State of English University of Kerala in India.

So my PhD project is an attempt to study, Bekins of Popa, a group of four queens who ruled

a Muslim principality in Pallonia in India for four consecutive terms, that is, a period spanning

more than 100 years. I am looking at the modalities of self-refashioning, one took by the queens to consolidate

their position and power and to the claim to the throne of the Popal as the reigning

begins of the Popal, that is, queens in their own rights, not regents, not acting on anyone's

behalf, but queens in their own rights, not regions, not acting on anyone's behalf, but queens in their own

whites.

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