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stop in my love letter to the world. Recorder microphone, action. Religious zealotry is fatally weakening the Mughal Empire in India. Rival independent kingdoms are rising.

Inter-Nesign struggles are breaking out between them.

As the Empire fractures, new hungry players move on to the board, keen to stick a claim and make their own fortunes.

The French and the Dutch are on the prowl, but the East India Company flexes its muscles

and sweeps them away so that the British Raj was born. Hi Neil, last week we travelled to Devon in England and watched one of the

sparks of the Industrial Revolution catch fire and transform the world. Where are we this week?

Hello Paul. Yes, well we're switching from invention and innovation in Britain to

power politics in the Indian subcontinent.

As the Industrial Revolution transforms Britain at home, its trading and military might

is making great marks elsewhere in the world.

And this week we're outside the city of Murshidabad in Bengal

as Lieutenant Colonel Robert Clive lines up his troops ready to is a battle that

changed the world. Those battles come along now and again. It was actually in terms of

battles of the of the period it was relatively bloodless you would say. We're also dealing with a

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