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🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Neil MacGregor visits different countries to talk to leading political, business and cultural figures to find out how they, as individuals and as members of their broader communities, see Britain. In India, Neil meets Gaj Singh, the former Maharaja of Jodhpur; Ram Narasimhan, proprietor of The Hindu Newspaper; professor Kavita Singh of Jawaharlal Nehru University; former Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar; and the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Shobana Kamineni.
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0:00.0 | And if we vote leave and take back control, I believe that this Thursday can be our country's Independence Day. |
0:13.0 | Well, at 20 minutes to five, |
0:16.0 | we can now say that British people have spoken, |
0:18.0 | and the answer is, we're out. |
0:20.0 | Actually, we will continue to be a bold, outward-looking country, forging our own way in the world. |
0:25.6 | Would some power the giftie gears to see ourselves as others see us. |
0:33.0 | As others see us. see us. |
0:35.0 | Five views of Britain from the rest of the world. |
0:40.0 | At the stroke of the midnight hour when the world sleeps India will awake to life and freedom. |
0:50.0 | The India that became independent on the 15th of August 1947 now has 1.3 billion citizens. |
0:58.0 | It's a robust and thriving democracy and a major economic power. |
1:04.0 | The British have been trading with India for nearly 500 years, but in the last few years, |
1:10.4 | British politicians have taught a great deal about our future, our new commercial relationship with the subcontinent. |
1:18.0 | Throughout this series I've been trying to find out how others see the UK, |
1:22.0 | and in India I have spoken to people from business and |
1:25.2 | journalism, academia and sport. The tone has always been friendly, even affectionate, |
1:31.9 | in spite of dealing with some very dark periods of our shared history. |
1:35.8 | I began by putting in a court the Maharaja of Jodpur whose family lands are in |
1:41.0 | northwest India near the frontier with Pakistan. whose family |
1:43.4 | with Pakistan. |
1:44.4 | The Maharaja's family have reined in Jodpur since the 15th century, |
1:49.4 | signing a treaty with the British in the middle of the 19th. Enthroned in 1952 at the age of just four, |
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