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The lost objects of South Asia

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Kanishk Tharoor talks about the latest series of BBC Radio 4’s Museum of Lost Objects, which explores the heritage of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Forests are pop. The forest department had an elephant, what is now West Bengal in India, that was allocated to East Pakistan. But the driver of that elephant chose to remain in India. So that became, that caused this huge

0:56.0

bureaucratic saga about how this elephant removed, removed, and by whom to its new lodgings

1:02.1

in East Pakistan. That was Kanisksh Tharro talking about the challenges of dividing objects

1:08.9

during the partition of India.

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In a couple of weeks' time, we'll reach the 70th anniversary of the partition of British India,

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into two and ultimately three separate states, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It's a subject

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that's getting a great deal of coverage on BBC TV and

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