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Hello and welcome to your

Dendtomy, a history podcast for people who don't like history, or at least people who

forgot to learn any at school. My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian, author,

and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories. In this podcast, we

mash together top-notch academics and comedians at the top of their game, transform you into

a connoisseur of historical know-how. And today we are mounting our war elephants and

travelling back 500 years to 16th century India. As we get to know, the Mughals. No,

not the unmagical peeps in the Harry Potter universe. That's muddles. We are talking about

the Mughal Empire. And to help us do that, we're joined by two very special guests. In

History Corner, she's an expert in the art and architecture of Mughal, South Asia. She

works for the NASA Decalili collection of Islamic art and regularly teaches both that,

so as in London and Oxford. It is Dr. Marine Chida Rajfi. Hello, Marine, how are you?

Hi, I'm very well, thank you. You are an expert on art and architecture. Presumably, you

are an art historian and a historian, is that fair? I think that's fair, yes. I consider myself

a historian who looks at history through objects. Nice, so good way to do it. And in comedy

corner, she was nominated for Best New Camera at Edinburgh Fringe in 2018 and since then

has skyrocketed to success in things like Lively Pollo, QI, The Tessacloc Show and lots more.

She is ridiculously brainy and according to her Twitter bio, she is both crazy and classy.

What a combination. It's Sindu V. Hello. Hello. In fact, my Twitter thing says I'm a crazy

but classy comedy cow. I mean, I didn't want to, you know, you can't say it, but I can.

Yeah, it's so great to be here. I'm so excited to be talking about South Asia and about the

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