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The greatest anti-imperial rebellion of the nineteenth century, The Indian Rebellion of 1857, witnessed mass violence against the British. Ninety years later, Indian freedom was founded on a deadly fratricide that singularly spared the outgoing masters. As a result, India’s founding fathers were tasked with how to steer the new nation in a context rife with hatred and violence.
Shruti Kapila, Associate Professor in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, joins Dan on the podcast. They discuss the major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India - from the dawn of the twentieth century to the independence of India and the formation of Pakistan in 1947.
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to Dance Nose History Hit. We've got some Indian history on now. |
0:04.5 | We've got the very brilliant associate to professor of history, Trutti Kebela on the podcast. |
0:09.9 | She's from the University of Cambridge and she's on to talk about Indian political thought |
0:13.8 | from what basically from the mid-19th century to the great Indian rebellion or the Indian |
0:18.5 | mutiny right the way, so in fact right the way through to present day, but particularly |
0:22.4 | looking at how the Indians were successful in getting rid of the Brits, ideas around nationalism |
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0:54.9 | is Professor Shruti Kebela. Shruti, thank you very much. Come on the podcast. Thank you. |
1:04.6 | It's great to be with you here. I'm someone who's studying in Redland about Indian |
1:09.1 | the long 18th century and into the middle of the 19th century. What political ideas are |
1:15.2 | current in South Asia in the middle of the 19th century? And then we'll talk about how they |
1:19.8 | maybe change later in that century. Well, that's a great question and a great jumping |
1:23.7 | off point because the mid 19th century is both the high watermark of imperial liberalism. |
1:30.9 | So the Mokhale, the Mills and as it were a reformed new government based on English education |
1:36.7 | in India, which is to create a class of Indians who would do the work of empire as it were. |
1:42.5 | But at the same time, it is the high watermark of the largest anti-colonial rebellion and |
1:47.2 | the greatest violence that the British will see outside of the Crimean War, which is of |
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