Hello everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. Got a treat for you today. We got more

Indian history, a history from the subcontinent we got pre-at-while talking about the Sikh empire,

the rise of the remarkable Sikh empire. In the 18th century, ever since the death of the mighty

Aurens Ab, the Mughal Emperor, India was fragmenting. Just as the British were establishing their enclosings

and moving inland places in Maharashtra and Bengal, so too was a new empire being carved out of

Northwest India, the Sikh empire. Pre-at-Wars has been on the podcast before, she's a legend, she has a

historian writer based in the UK. She has just written a wonderful new book on the Sikh empire,

and she's here to talk all about it. If you want to hear pre-ars, last interview on this podcast,

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Priya, great to have you back on the podcast. Thanks for having me back, Dan.

We always hear about the fading Mugal Empire in relation to the arrival of the British,

but actually there was more that there was not going more going on on the old subcontinent.

What what who else was taking advantage of the lessening power of Delhi?

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