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HistoryChatter offers an informed take on our shared pasts.
Designed and performed by Anirban Bandyopadhyay (Ph.D.), a trained historian and writer, the podcast offers a perspective on the past that shows how multiple interpretations of our pasts and our histories emerge.
HistoryChatter believes diversity is not, difference and that difference does not produce inferiority of superiority. More importantly, it believes the past is made of many stories, and many more stories about the past will never be known.
Yet, the past is a necessity to understand how the present has come about and where it is heading.
HistoryChatter is about stories about the past that walk us through the present. It believes good history can be done with fun.
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2024 marks the twenty year anniversary of Finding Forhotten Ciities, Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri’s landmark book on the various events and personalities which led to the discovery of Indus Valley civilization in the early twentieth century and later.
In a freewheeling conversation with Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Prof. Lahiri recalls how she came to write the book, how the book presents a modern history of the discovery of an ancient civilization and the multiple ways in which pasts and the present are always necessarily connected in historical research, writing and understanding. While the conversation revolved around the book's content, it touches upon some of the general concerns which inform the research and presentation of history to a popular readership in a time when contested pasts are often leveraged for group identity formation and polarising politics.
Chapter Markers:
(0:00) Introduction
(6:00) How Finding Forgotten Cities Came to Be
(8:00) The Early Phase of Indian Antiquarianism (Early 19th - Late 19th Century)
(13:00) Local Perceptions and the Birth of Archaeology in India
(14:00) John Marshall's Independent Path
(20:00) Contingency and Incidental Points in the Discovery Process
(25:00) The Relationship Between Indians and British Officials in the Archaeological Survey
(28:00) The Role of Local Communities and Memories
(32:00) How Historical Discoveries Happen
(36:00) Presentness of the Past, Future Projects, and Concluding Thoughts
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When economic blockade encouraged the Portuguese to hold on to Goa rather than abandon it, India finally decided to use force. Yet its long held pacifist position in international diplomacy misled Portugal and China into complacency that India would never actually use force. While secret military predications were afoot, the Defence Minister of India mounted a spirited press campaign virtually calling for an Indian invasion. USA tried last minute diplomatic manoeuvres but Indian soldiers finally moved ahead. The disparity in military strength between the Indian and Portuguese forces was overwhelming.
The Operatiion Vijay holds the unique distinction of being the first campaign in which the three wings of the Indian military services-army, navy and airforce- deployed simultaneously for the first time.
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The third episode of Konkan Uprising, our special series of the liberation of Goa, focuses on the economic blockade during the late 1950s. India did not want to make a military intervention, even though diplomatic relations broke down irrevocably. Instead, it imposed an economic sanction, since trade with India made up the lifeline of the Goan economy. India hoped that the boka class would choke the Goan economy, forcing Portugal to hand over Goa to India. What followed was its exact opposite. Goa actually became quite prosperous during the years the blockade was in effect. It set off an unprecedented mining boom, and a general deuce towards industrialisation. This episode explores that paradox.
The third episode of The Konkan Rising, a four-part series on the liberation of Goa on HistoryChatter, explores that irony.
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Between 1946 and 1956, the Goa question had entered the international domain. India became independent but did not want to annex Goa by force. It stressed Goa’s social and cultural unity with India but insuu insisted on a diplomatic handover by Portugal. The latter had no such intention.
Meanwhile, the freedom fighters in Goa carried on their struggles. In 1954, India imposed an economic boycott, hoping Portugal would finally surrender an impoverished Goa.
But the reality turned out to be the very opposite. How did Goa become wealthy for the first time in the middle of a crippling economic blockade?
The second episode of The Konkan Rising, a four-part series on the liberation of Goa on HistoryChatter, explores that irony.
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The people of Goa fell into a peculiar problem this month due to a recent change in Indian passport laws. Early last year, Prime Minister Modi claimed that Jawaharlal Nehru deliberately delayed Goa’s liberation and integration with India. What really happened with Goa? I went back to Sushila Mendes’ work and the recent monograph of Valmiki Faleiro on the liberation of Goa.
This and the next three episodes of HistoryChatter offer a detailed account of Goa’s peculiar relations with India.
I focus primarily on the process of its liberation and union with India. This comes closely on the heels of our series on the integration of the princely states with India. The first episode presents the background and the landmark 1946 intervention by Rammanohar Lahia. It also offers one of the interpretations of Jawaharlal Nehru’s role in the process.
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🔎 Why 🧐 did #Nehru delay the liberation of #Goa from the Portuguese and make it a part of Bharat? A delay that was 15years after India got its independence from the #BritishRaj?? Was it on purpose? What was the real strategy? From the makers of chart-topping history series comes another gripping tale- 🥁🥁🥁 #KonkanUprising: Goa's Liberation Saga In the form of a 3-part series on HistoryChatter Podcast with Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay Streaming on Ep.Log Media from 20.12.23
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Coffee drinking on a large scale did not start in India before the early 20th century. Once it became popular as a leisure drink, many commentators responded to its novel appeal. Some believed it was making Indians more prone to diseases.
Yet others believed coffee reduced breast milk supply in lactating mothers. This episode looks into such varied cultural responses to the introduction of coffee consumption in south India, drawing from the pioneering work of A R Venkatachalapathy.
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The G20, also known as the Group of Twenty, includes Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in addition to the European Union.
Presently, G20 nations collectively represent over 80% of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 75% of worldwide trade, and 60% of the Earth's population.
This weekend 9th & 10th September 2023, as Bharat hosts the world leaders, we thought why not delve into its history, origins and what has happened in the previous editions!
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Join us on #HistoryChatter 🎤 as we bring to you a 4-part #docuseries-
India United: Princely States and the Indian Republic New
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Sikkim followed a different trajectory from other former princely states. India virtually treated it as a foreign country, until early 1970s.
The final episode of the series India United explores the twists and turns of internal and external politics around Sikkim between 1947 and 1975.
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Jawaharlal Nehru was firmly against hereditary monarchs. But he made an exception in the case of Sikkim.
He let Sikkim’s King stay on, until after his death. His daughter Indira Gandhi believed it was an indirect concession to China.
But there were movements within Sikkim for democracy and the end of landlordism. Political dynamics slowly began to change during the 1960s and Indira Gandhi finally decided to get R&AW officials to plot the ouster of the Simkimese king.
I look at the history of India-Sikkim relations in this fourth episode of India United.
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In the third episode on the incorporation of princely states within independent India, I take up a detailed case study of Hyderabad. It was the largest princely state in British India, and the Nizam of Hyderabad aspired for an Azad Hyderabad or independent Hyderabad.
It was not an unreasonable aspiration as such. If it were to be independent, Hyderabad would have been as wealthy as the top twenty members of the United Nations in 1947-48. He had the support of hardline Muslim fanatics and of course of Jinnah and the Muslim League.
The situation became more complex with counter moliztion of Hindus and Sikhs and the rebellion in Telangana by oppressed peasants under the leadership of communists.
The Nizam sent a delegation to the United Nations to make a case for Hyderabad's independence. It was a terrible prospect for India.
The Hyderabad crisis festered even as Mountbatten left India in June 1948.
India had to sign standstill agreements and appoint an Agent General. There were regular border problems with several parts of India throughout 1947 and 1948.
We discuss these border skirmishes in detail.
Finally, though, there was no option left but for direct military intervention.
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Integration of various princely states to the newly independent state of India was carried out primarily by the States Department. It came into being in July,1947 and was headed by Sardar Patel. He was ably assisted by V P Menon, who held the highest position among Indian officials of the Raj, as constitutional advisor to the last three British Viceroys. He laid down the legal and constitutional protocols for the accession of princely states. He also carried out a number of meetings with Indian princes, persuading, cajoling and occasionally intimidating them, to strengthen India’s hands. Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy, firmly stood behind Patel and Menon. This special Independence Day episode of HistoryChatter looks into these legal and constitutional issues, and the personal drama, associated with the work of the states department between July and August 1947.
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Given a choice, many native princes did not want to become a part of the independent Indian republic in 1947.
Quite a few of them had even hatched a conspiracy to create a confederacy of princely states. Some influential British officials still supported those ambitions, albeit with an imperialist motive.
But Jawaharlal Nehru was implacably opposed to these fantasies. He had personally suffered at the hands of autocratic princes on several occasions. Journalist Sandeep Bamzai argues that a particular clause in the Indian Independence ACT was inserted solely to preserve these states and embarrass the fledgling Indian republic with multiple small independent states all around it.
The first episode of a four part series on the integration of princely states with India lays bare these complex legal and political background of the 565 princely states in India on the eve of independence and partition.
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🗓️15th of August 1947
On one side we see it as the day of India's Independence, on the other, the day when the country got partitioned.
But there's one more side that is not much talked about, Just as our freedom struggle ended, a new quest began-
To unite the Indian States & its people‼️
What if India were 29 countries and not 29 states?
What if Rajasthan would have become a part of Pakistan?
But it is a story that has to be told, a story of how the princely states joined India
Join us on #HistoryChatter 🎤 as we bring to you a 5-part #docuseries-
India United: Princely States and the Indian Republic New
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The Government of India began to encourage the manufacture of a small car only by the 1970s. Sanjay Gandhi, Prime Minister’s son and an automobile fanatic, carried out the audacious Maruti experiment during the 1970s. It was a giant dream, and ended up as a bigger failure.
His mother Indira Gandhi finally revived the dream.
For once, capable managers were hired, and the government or the bureaucracy did not interfere. This unusual arrangement was never repeated in any other Public Sector Unit (PSU) in India.
The final episode of the great Indian car dream recalls the initial tragedy and then every stage of the final triumph of Maruti.
Maruti would since change the history of the automobile sector in India forever.
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The first thirty years after independence were a bumpy ride for the private car dream. Automobile was considered integral to India’s self sufficiency but the private car was not a part of that scheme. The government focused on setting up a manufacturing base for automobiles in India. But larger vehicles for defence and freight and mass transport sectors received greater priority. The articulate professional class too believed public transport had to be given greater priority. There was apprehension private cars would choke the roads and cause pollution. In fact, there were suggestions as early as fifty years ago that India should consider electric vehicles.
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A small car is not an unattainable aspiration for a middle-class family in India today. Forty years ago though, it was. Cars were considered an unaffordable luxury until the mid-eighties when Maruti 800 finally came along. However, attempts had begun as early as the 1930s to set up an automobile manufacturing industry in India.
I take up this journey in a three-part series. The first episode profiles the early pioneers and their audacious but finally aborted attempts during the 1930s and 1940s.
The second episode tracks the painfully slow and sputtering growth of the industry between the 1950s to 1970s.
The final episode charts the rise and shine of the automobile industry in India since the 1980s. It offers a ringside view of the Maruti growth story as a case study.
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A small car is not an unattainable aspiration for a middle-class family in India today. Forty years ago though, it was!
Cars were considered an unaffordable luxury until the mid-eighties when Maruti 800 finally came along. However, attempts had begun as early as the 1930s to set up an automobile manufacturing industry in India.
From the makers of HistoryChatter Podcast, we bring to you this exciting 3-part series on how this dream was made a reality amidst the Chaos, Controversy, Failures and Revolt.
Episodes Streaming Every Sunday from 16th July 2023
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HistoryChatter enters into contemporary history in this special episode. Anirban speaks to political scientists Prof. Sudha Pai and Dr. Sajjan Kumar on the recent past and prospects of Dalit politics in Uttar Pradesh. Pai and Kumar have recently published the much-acclaimed book 'Maya, Modi and Azad: Dalit Politics in the Time of Hindutva'.
They argue that the Bahujan Samaj Party is probably in a terminal decline and Dalits in Uttar Pradesh now display a unique paradox of political preference for the BJP in elections and political protest against perceived atrocities under the leadership of a new generation of leaders such as Chandrasekhar Azad Ravan.
They spoke in detail about how this unique transformation gradually took place since the 1990s.
Finally, they argue that the multiple faces of Dalit politics are not an exception, but possibly the norm. Extension of larger political and economic processes such as globalization is one of the factors behind what they see as a fragmentation of the Dalit self which they portray as a sign of deepening democracy.
Pai and Kumar make these and many more points in the course of an engaging conversation with Anirban against the background of their new book.
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Once the British conquered India, they invested in learning Indian languages. Initially, they searched for one common language for the whole subcontinent. The search for a common vernacular in India made an adventurer called John Gilchrist virtually invent a new language called Hindustani.
The language was common enough in north India but its rise to the status of a pan-Indian lingua franca was a British colonial project. Yet, by the late nineteenth century, Hindustani was virtually divided down the middle into Hindi and Urdu.
By the 1940s, the language, like the subcontinent, was literally partitioned and made to disappear.
No one admits to speaking Hindustani in India today even when they use it in practice.
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There was some controversy about whether it was right or fair to clothe the nude bronze figurine from Mohenjo Daro when it was recently adopted as the mascot of an International Museum Expo, 2023 being held in New Delhi. Dr. Ashish Kumar, an expert in ancient Indian history who teaches at the Punjab University, Chandigarh in a freewheeling conversation with the host Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay discusses the caterer of this most interesting archaeological discovery.
It turns out that the figure was inaccurately characterized as a dancing girl from an Adivasi background. Dr. Kumar also offers an account of how the turns of contemporary histories, such as the partition, often determine the career and public images of historical artifacts in strangely unanticipated ways.
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Cricket commentary has just turned hundred years old. It has undergone great transformation as it grew from modest beginnings in Australia and England in the 1920s. This episode looks into the debut and early history of cricket commentary in Australia, England, India and Pakistan.
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India came close to testing an atomic bomb several times between 1974 and 1998. One of those times was in 1983 when Indira Gandhi withdrew authorization at the last moment.
Narasimha Rao was about to test a nuclear weapon in 1995. This special episode examines why and how the test was considered necessary and why it could not be carried out.
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What happened to the Indian nuclear programme after the explosion?
Did it settle into a regular rhythm of making bombs?
Did it focus on producing electricity?
Or did it lapse into factional fights and remain beholden to the personal interest of the Prime Minister?
This final episode takes up these questions while examining the history of the prospects and performance of atomic energy research in India since the first explosion in 1974.
Hard-hitting, unsparing, and based on credible academic research, the episode is likely to demolish several romantic myths about India’s atomic research accomplishments.
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India’s atomic energy research took a new turn by the 1960s.
On the one hand, the atomic scientists had to seek out a new challenge as the objective of nuclear power production was within reach.
They had to do something dramatic to maintain the top-secret status of their enterprise.
The bomb was the obvious answer.
On the other hand, Americans were now ready to do business with India, since India would have gone ahead to manufacture nuclear power anyway. Death of quite a few leading figures nonetheless slowed down the progress towards the bomb.
The Chinese testing their bomb by 1964 had already turned popular opinion in favour of an Indian bomb.
In retrospect, it would seem as though the rush through the passage of the Nuclear Bill of 1962 in the parliament was a preparation for the bomb.
The explosion did finally take place in May 1974, but not before the country went through a series of temporary reverses and recoveries.
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Atomic energy research in India made only modest progress in the early years. The cult of secrecy around it often provoked criticism.
Indian atomic scientists were still years away from building a nuclear reactor.
Finally, they were forced to approach various developed countries for cooperation. When the first nuclear reactors were built in India, it was only through major international collaborations with countries such as Britain and Canada.
The third episode of the series #AtomicIndia on #HistoryChatter explores this tentative early phase in the history of atomic energy research in India.
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Indian scientists and politicians carried out vigorous discussions on how to organize advanced scientific research on an industrial scale in India as a means of development between 1938 and 1948.
This episode revisits some of those conversations about the management of scientific research.
At the same time, it looks into the politically charged process of the integration of princely states into the Indian union with particular reference to Travancore. Travancore had been planning to build an independent economy on the strength of its reserves of radioactive Thorium. Since 1945, when its utility as an atomic fuel was revealed, the value of Thorium shot up in the international market.
However, Nehru and the nationalist Indian scientists virtually forced Travancore to surrender its entire reserve to India’s absolute control.
Control over all material related to nuclear research thus emerged as a necessary attribute of the sovereignty of the new Indian state.
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Science and technology were considered as the face of modernity in independent India. A mastery and application of technology on an industrial scale was perceived as the only means of delivering development and democracy rapidly and extensively. Atomic energy or nuclear technology was perceived as a necessary attribute of sovereignty and honour among the international community. This episode explores the history of how technology and atomic energy research in particular rose to such unassailable heights in independent India.
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Atomic energy research in India started well before independence, but since independence, it has assumed an uncontested priority above all other branches of science and technology.
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, believed that countries that possessed nuclear energy alone would have the capacity to rule the future.
He was convinced that the resources required for atomic energy research could not be mobilized by individuals or universities, and the state must play a leading role. The subsequent premiers have broadly conformed to this policy.
India's nuclear energy research has always been shrouded under secrecy as much as it has received unquestioned priority from the political establishment.
We at HistoryChatter are excited to introduce Atomic India, a 5-part series that takes up the history of atomic energy research in India, down to the nuclear explosions and their ramifications in national and international diplomacy, with all its dramas, intrigues and anxieties, narrated by Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay.
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In the tenth and final episode of the series Bombay Born, I talk to Amrit Gangar, who has researching and writing on films and Bombay for over forty years now. A scholar, curator, archivist and the quintessential Bombayite,
Mr. Gangar spoke to me about the unique qualities of Bombay or Mumbai as a city, how Bombay emerged as the capital of movie making in India, and some landmark films on Mumbai as a city. Finally, we agree that films have performed as an archive of the city over the last hundred years, yet there is a crying need to systematically preserve older films, most of which have already perished.
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The Bombay Chronicle emerged as the voice of Bombay by the early twentieth century. Between the 1910s and 1950s, but especially since the 1920s, it reflected the diverse interests of Bombay and yet always managed to remain loyal to the mainstream of Indian nationalism. This episode of HistoryChatter, of episode 9 of the series Bombay Born, recalls the career of this unique publication, through the career of two of its most distinguished editors.
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Bombay was transformed from a prosperous port city to a major industrial metropolis largely through the expansion of the cotton textile industry. The growing mill industry called for labor.
The influx also brought forth fresh challenges. Housing and sanitation for the vast incoming population, schools for their children, and medical aid called for urgent solutions. The Bombay City Improvement Trust was set up and along came the chawl, one of the most distinctive institutions of Bambay turned Mumbai, which has since defined the energies of the city in the political, economic, social and cultural domains in multiple ways.
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Bombay did not have respectable hotels even during the 1850s. There were some taverns but they did not attract the respectable folks, who usually found accommodation with friends or family. An enterprising Parsi set up the earliest modern hotel in Bombay with an in-house restaurant. I take up the early History of Hotels in Bombay in episode 7 of the series Bombay born. The episode focuses closely on the Watson’s Hotel, the first five-star hotel, as it were, in India, which is also where cinema, or moving images, was screened for the first time in India in July 1896. In fact, I begin with the advertisement about that very event.
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One of the factors which gradually rescued Mumbai or Bombay from the effects of the crash of 1865 was the development of an improved communication system. Episode 6 of Bombay Bombay born recalls the dramatic history of the postal services in Bombay, through the eyes of the businessmen of the times.
The episode maps the communication revolution in nineteenth and early twentieth century Bombay, beginning with a colourful description of the private agencies which carried or delivered posts when postage stamps or postcards had not been in circulation.
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Mumbai or Bombay was struck by the first major share market scandal in India in 1865.
The American Civil War and the sudden cotton export boom it had caused suddenly brought massive fortunes in the hands of speculators. From merchant princes to lowly menials, everyone in Bombay jumped right into the speculation mania.
In the second part of understanding the effects of the cotton bubble burst, we look into the details to learn the reasons behind the burst and how a few leading brains had more or less consciously manufactured the crisis.
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Mumbai or Bombay was struck by the first major share market scandal in India in 1865.
The American Civil War and the sudden cotton export boom it had caused suddenly brought massive fortunes in the hands of speculators. From merchant princes to lowly menials, everyone in Bombay jumped right into the speculation mania. I look into the details of this episode in this and the next episode.
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In the third episode of Bombay Born, I revisit 1857 in Mumabai. Bombay largely remained quiet, but there were a few cases of conspiracy in the army. I revisit that case in some detail, with details of how it was dealt with by the Governor and the Chief of Police at the time. I also look at the life in the Maidan, where the Parsees would often gather for leisure and participate in a number of amusing entertainments. Along the way, I recall the rise of the early Indian leaders of the Bombay society, most of whom were financiers and bankers and made a name following their collaboration with various European trading firms.
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The second episode of Bombay Born begins with the coming of the Railways and the demolition of the Ramparts. These two developments in the 1850s and 1860s virtually ushered in the modern city of Bombay. Then we briefly recall how the Fort came about hundred years ago and how it had outlived its utility by the 1860s. Finally, the story concludes with the sights and sounds of the Maidan during the 1850s and the 1860s.
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The history of Mumbai or Bombay took a major new turn once the British took over in the late seventeenth century.
They not only envisaged a great future for the harbour but also made arrangements to make it secure.
The first episode of the series Bombay Born focuses on life around the harbor in the mid-nineteenth century. The future metropolis was still a town around the Fort and the harbor. Potential ruin was never too far away. The cyclone of 1854 was one such milestone. The episode concludes with a detailed account of the havoc it wrecked. Now that climate change specialists have warned that Mumbai might well go under the sea by another fifty or so years, it makes sense, to begin with, similar eventualities in the past.
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Mumbai or Bombay has long been a city of dreams, aspirations and untold wealth. Yet, even in 1850s, it was a narrow walled town. Bombay Born recalls the birth of this megapolis since then. It explores the people and the events since then that magically transformed the city into the commercial heaven it has since become.
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HistoryChatter in this episode looks into the early career of Shell Shock as a disorder. It was first discovered among British soldiers in France during the First World War. I look at the early medical and military response to the problem and a detailed case study, concluding with a brief account of how the condition has since evolved. It is now called PTSD.
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Boarding Schools in various hill stations in India had been around since the mid-nineteenth century. This episode of HistoryChatter looks into what role they play in society, then and now, in terms of the students they produce and the values that they instill among these students. It looks also into the early history of the Lawrence School at Sanawar, through the personal correspondence of its founder.
Finally, it concludes with a consideration of the changes in the essential character of these schools over time.
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Public schools, which are in reality private boarding schools for the upper-class children, took off in the UK in the nineteenth century. One of their contributions was that they produced scores of politicians and administrators who later ran the country and held it together with the British empire. HistoryChatter in this episode examines how the students of major public schools in England were systematically groomed into particular ideologies by their charismatic headmasters.
It looks also into how later the particular ideals of ‘leadership’ taught in these schools came to be cherished in the colonies. Such boarding schools Have long been considered the best place to train the art of effective leadership the children from wealthy families.
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The princely states in India ceased to matter after India became independent in 1947. How did the princes cope with the sudden disappearance of their authority? One of the immediate crises was financial. Many princes had to sell off their assets. These were put up for regular auctions. This episode of HistoryChatter recalls one of these auctions of the household assets of the former Maharaja of Kashmir in 1958.
It offers a peek at the untold wealth of these potentates, and why these auctions did not evoke any sympathy for the former rulers of the princely states.
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On International Museum Day, #HistoryChatter recalls the history of the movement. Even though the date was fixed by ICOM, and preservation of heritage has been promoted aggressively by UNESCO since the Second World War, its history goes back to the 1920s. Nicholas Roerich, a Russian but a global citizen encouraged American Vice President Henry Wallace to make the first major move in this direction in 1935. This episode recalls the details of that history. At the same time, it also asks whether it is at all possible to resolve the basic contradiction between the idea of a museum as a custodian of a nation’s heritage and the idea of museums as repositories of a common global heritage. HistoryChatter believes this conflict throws up some promising prospects.
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Foreign observers noticed some unique features of Indian English during the 1950s. India had recently become independent. There was a great deal of resistance to the persistence of English. At the same time, the national language debate had been raging furiously. Foreign observers made some insightful remarks about the prospects of English and regional languages in India at the time. In view of the current controversy about the national language question, the latest episode of HistoryChatter recalls some of those prescient observations.
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LIC is now entering the share market. Experts predict that the development has the potential to significantly rewrite the history of infrastructure and business financing in India. The latest episode of HistoryChatter recalls the history of the insurance business, particularly in terms of the early organization and legal regulations, from the nineteenth century, in England and in India, until the present.
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In April 1952, exactly seventy years ago from now, the foundation stone of All India Medical Institute was laid. It was to be the nucleus of advanced medical research and teaching in India.
This episode of HistoryChatter recalls the vision and objectives of AIIMS in detail. At the same time, it explores in detail an early controversy about a particular provision of the AIIMS act. This provision, which broadly dealt with its institutional autonomy, also had a flip side. I conclude with the ways in which the purported autonomy of the institution would often be violated in practice through excessive state control, a problem that persists even today.
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Today is World Heritage Day! HistoryChatter in this episode revisits the relation between history and heritage.
Following the work of David Lowenthal, who may well be called the pioneer of critical heritage studies, we ask what the massive rise in popular interest in heritage in contemporary times really means.
We look at the reasons behind this explosion of interest in heritage and the profile of various stakeholders in the process.
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What kind of questions do you believe would be asked to an agony aunt in the 16th century? What were the major concerns of the people who wanted to look good or appear well-mannered in those days? Historian Elizabeth Archibald of the University of Pittsburgh has put together a list of useful advice from various pamphlets in 16th century Europe. Some of them appear absurd today, and others curious and amusing. All of them, however, is unfailingly interesting, to the extent they throw light on contemporary realities and perceptions. This episode of HistoryChatter recalls some of those ‘useful’ advices from the 16th century. Here’s your chance, then, to consult an agony aunt from centuries ago.
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This episode of HistoryChatter features an interview with Dr. Shilpi Rajpal of Copenhagen University. Rajpal published a pioneering social history of insanity and madness in nineteen and twentieth-century India; ‘Curing Madness: A Social and Cultural History of Insanity in Colonial North India 1800-1950s’.
In this conversation, Rajpal spoke about the changing ideas and meanings of insanity and madness, the colonial state’s laws towards controlling and managing it and the response of the nationalist literature towards these ideas. She spoke also about the gendered character of such histories.
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Raja Rammohan Ray, who is often called the first modern Indian, wrote a letter in 1823 to Governor-General Lord Amherst. In the letter, he protested against the government's decision to assign special funds to promote Sanskrit learning.
In this episode of HistoryChatter, we revisit that special document and recall the reasons Rammohan Ray had cited against the promotion of classical language education in India. Looking back, it marked a highly significant moment in the history of education in India.
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S N Banerjea, a founder member of the Indian National Congress, had a distinguished career in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as a teacher and a politician. However, he was also one of the first Indians to pass the ICS Examination in 1871. This episode of HistoryChatter revisits his early life as a bright student who went to England and passed the ICS Examination amid great difficulties, only to be unfairly dismissed soon after joining service.
It explores the various challenges he had to face during preparation for the examination and later as a junior officer during his brief tenure. Recalling his early life and career many years later as an elder statesman, Banerjea offers a compelling account of the challenges and struggles for the educated middle-class Indians aspiring for high positions in the service of the colonial state in India during the late nineteenth century.
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This episode of HistoryChatter is a conversation with Chicago Historian Rochona Majumdar about her new book on Indian art cinema. Majumdar speaks about how the promoters of art cinema participated in fresh imaginations about the future of democracy and development in India.
She claims art cinema was also a way of doing history to the extent that it played around with the concept of time in special ways. She speaks at length about her reading of the works of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatak.
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Cigarette smoking is injurious to health. But it was once promoted as a stress reliever. During the First World War in particular, cigarette smoking was in fact encouraged as a morale booster. Cigarette companies published patriotic advertisements, women were exhorted to gift cigarettes to their men in the trenches and war time import restrictions were lifted selectively for tobacco leaves.
First World War may be one of the reasons smoking became wildly popular during the first half of the twentieth century. HistoryChatter examines some of the ways in which First World War promoted smoking as patriotism in practice.
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Coffee houses arrived in England in the seventeenth century, probably from Turkey. By the eighteenth century, they evolved into an animated public square. Men visiting coffee houses gradually took to discussing politics, commerce and diplomacy, and media and advertising too moved in soon enough.
Yet, the rise of the coffee house as a public place did not immediately lead to a corresponding rise in the popularity of coffee as a leisure drink. HistoryChatter in this episode looks into these two distinct histories. How did the coffee house emerge in England as a major site for free and wide-ranging discussions over matters of public interest? How did the British take to drinking coffee?
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The UN has decided to celebrate February 11 as the International Day of Women and Girls In Science.
In that context, this episode of history chatter recalls the pioneering role some women doctors had played in setting up and running all women’s hospitals in Europe during the First World War. Offering an outline of the life and careers of these pioneers, including some details about the recruitment of the staff and the regular of these hospitals, HistoryChatter argues that women are potentially as capable as men in science and technology research. If only they were to receive equal opportunities and rewards, they would often enough outperform men.
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Fish and chips would be usually described as the staple food of the labouring poor in the nineteenth century. Writers such as Dickens and contemporary newspapers and commentators connected it with poverty, lack of hygiene and a strong odour.
In short, the middle classes in England pretty much disapproved of it until the early twentieth century. Since the 1950s, however, Fish and Chips underwent an image makeover in popular perception and gained a great deal of respect. It was now repackaged as the national dish of Great Britain.
Interestingly, foreigners such as Americans, Italians, Chinese and Indians had a major role to play in this transformation.
This episode of HistoryChatter tracks this shift in the fortunes of the humble Fish and Chips.
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The government of India has resolved to erect a statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose near the India Gate on 23 January this year. This is the 125th birth anniversary year of Netaji Bose.
On this occasion, HistoryChatter recalls the political legacy of Netaji Bose and the legends surrounding his death and reappearance. How do we propose to remember one of the tallest leaders of modern India?
Is it an attempt to hijack his legacy? Or is it an attempt to finally restore him to his due place in India’s history and politics? This episode of HistoryChatter addresses these questions around the legacy and legends of Netaji Bose.
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How food travels across time and place is a reflection of the relation of peoples and cultures over time. Khichdi had long been around in the subcontinent. But the attitude of foreigners to it kept changing across time. Some, such as Ibn Batuta, mentioned it in passing, without any special affinity. Yet others, such as Nikitin, dismissed it with contempt. The early Englishmen, however, adapted it to their palette, though their insistence on marking out a distinction from the native made them transform the dish to some extent. In this changed version, Khichdi went west and before long emerged as a culinary delicacy.
This episode of HistoryChatter recalls this long journey of the humble dal chawal in its various avatars.
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The city of Bombay really took off during the 1850s. Until then, it had been growing steadily as a major port city, but the 1850s saw the arrival of the modem machines and the textile mills. This is also when the railways made their debut.
Mill owner and liberal politician Dinshaw Wacha was in his boyhood at the time. Later, when he wrote a memoir on Bombay, he would recall the many changes he had seen around the city as he had been growing up. This episode of HistoryChatter revisits Wacha’s memories of the first train ride in Bombay and the flight of the first balloon. Befittingly enough, the experiment was carried out by a gentleman called Mr. Kyte.
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Mumbai or Bombay looked vastly different a hundred years ago. Salim Ali, the legendary bird watcher and ornithologist, grew up in the first decades of twentieth-century in south Bombay. He has left a delightful account of his school days and summer holidays in his memoir The Fall of a Sparrow.
The first episode of HistoryChatter this year looks back at some of those memories hundred years ago. The Fall of a Sparrow is a book you simply cannot resist.
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Did you know that Christmas celebrations did not begin until the fourth century AD? Or that St. Francis or Franciscans were not the first to make the crib popular? Or that the Carols were originally a collection of bawdy songs until local priests in Germany, Italy, Ireland and England turned them into divine prayers? This Christmas special episode of HistoryChatter explores a long term history of the Christmas feasts over the ancient and medieval times. It takes you through the evolution of the sights and sounds and the flavours of Christmas celebrations as we know it today.
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One was a thoroughbred patrician with an obsession with motor racing, while the other rose from a hardy farmer stock to become a self-taught mechanic and manufacturer of breakthrough technology cars and engines.
What happens when two such polar opposite characters by chance met each other during the fin de siecle Britain?
This episode of HistoryChatter revisits the fairy tale of how Rolls met Royce and the ways in which that meeting changed the history of surface transport, war, and aviation in the twentieth century.
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The game of Badminton reached New York as early as 1878. Four or five adventurous young men and women set up The Badminton Club of New York, but over the next fifty years, it evolved primarily as a socializing institution.
By the early twentieth century, their best badminton player was easily enough defeated in a game by a Lawn Tennis player with some practice. It did incalculable damage to the image of the game in America, and Badminton failed to emerge as a frontline sporting choice.
This episode of HistoryChatter recalls this origin story of Badminton in America. It also reflects on some aspects of elite socializing in early twentieth-century New York, including clothes, courtship, and match-making.
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Middle-class men in Victorian Britain launched a movement between the 1840s and 1860s against shaving. They believed bearded men enjoyed divine blessing and shaving caused cancer and blindness and made men irreligious, irrational, and unhealthy at once. Their anxiety probably reflected growing imperial anxiety and a new pattern of masculinity for middle-class men who were keen to distinguish themselves from the more muscular laboring population.
This episode of HistoryChastter looks into this movement in some detail. It also asks the listeners whether there is any general or timeless logic behind why men prefer or avoid growing or keeping a beard.
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Sports and international politics and diplomacy intersect in many ways. The Ping Pong diplomacy between America and China in 1971 was probably the most high-profile instance of sports helping in the resumption of diplomatic relations between two formerly hostile countries. HistoryChatter revisits this landmark episode in international diplomacy on its fiftieth anniversary.
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British secret service files on historian Eric Hobsbawm reveal their anxiety against communists and communism. They offer details on methods of espionage, techniques of information gathering and processes of record keeping and information sharing by secret service operatives. Ironically enough, spies of two warring or otherwise hostile countries often enough met and exchanged notes on common targets. The British secret service and the German gestapo worked closely during 1930s against suspected communists. This episode of HistoryChatter explores these and several other exploits of the British secret services as revealed by Hobsbawm files released in 2014.
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Historian Eric Hobsbawm was longtailed by the British Secret Service MI5. He was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), which the secret service saw as a threat to the nation. The MI5 files on Hobsbawm were finally declassified in 2014, two years after his death in 2012. HistoryChatter looks into the contents of these files in two episodes. In addition, these episodes include details on hazards of working with secret service files, the attitude of the British state to the communists, and the operational style of the secret services officers.
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Diwali often appears to be a common Indian festival. In reality, Indians of various religions observe anniversaries of distinct events on the same day. Kali Puja, which is celebrated most widely in Bengal, and often falls on the same day or time around Diwali, also has a number of origin stories. It is observed in various forms by various communities and places. This episode of HistoryChatter looks into these multiple origins, encouraging the claim that real India thrives inside its diversities.
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Falafel is now considered a typical middle eastern delicacy. Many countries, including Israel, Palestine, and Yemen claim to be their birthplace. Yet, it was probably invented in Egypt and inspired by the humble Indian Vada or Fulawri. This episode of HistoryChatter explores the appearance, circulation, and contested nationalisation of Falafel in the Middle East and later migration to Europe and America.
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Did you know that many children were eligible to vote in the early twentieth century England? An anomaly in voting laws in England made it possible.
This episode of HistoryChatter takes up why it happened and how eventually it was set right.
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Chicago University Professor Wendy Doniger, a living legend studying Hinduism and India over the last sixth years, speaks in this special episode of HistoryChatter about her early career choices, history and myth, her new book on horses in Indian history and mythology and on distinctive approach to studying India, Hinduism, Sanskrit and texts.
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The second episode on the many histories of Qutb Minar carries shows how a good historian reads various sources of the past. It considers the ways in which Prof. Sunil Kumar had studied and interpreted the various sources which offer details about the Qutb complex.
He shows, for instance, how the Hindu god Vishwakarma is present in these accounts or how the history of Qutb offers clues to the changing career of various Sufi shrines in Delhi.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India, is often remembered only for his successful premiership during the 1965 Indo-Pak war and for his mysterious death while in the office soon after. This episode of HistoryChatter provides an account of his early life and political career instead. In recalling his family background, boyhood experiences, student life, and early life in politics, it explores how he had picked up the enduring values and political orientations which would characterize his leadership later in time.
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How do description of heritage monuments influence our sense of what is good or bad, or likable or avoidable, about various religious communities? This episode of HistoryChatter pays tribute to the scholarship of Sunil Kumar, who wrote at length about the many ways in which our present concerns influence our understanding of heritage monuments. Typically, as we shall see, all heritage monuments bear many histories, and yet at the present, we appear to celebrate only one of those histories. This episode offers a case study of this process, based on Kumar’s pioneering work on the Qutub Minar.
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The second episode of HistoryChatter Quick takes is about the lighter sides of the Second World War in India. It also highlights the ways in which plenty of public money would be wasted in paying for politician's whims and addictions. Sometimes, men would receive fully paid government jobs to make sure that major figures thousand of miles away were supplied with their favourite poison.
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What were the concerns before the founding fathers of the Indian constitution with regard to the question of the national language?
Why does the language question in India open up a deeply felt divide between north and south India? What are the ways in which language and religion get mixed up in India?
The Hindi Diwas special edition of HistoryChatter asks these and several other questions related to the politics and policies around language in modern and contemporary India.
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Did you know how Lord Linlithgow, the Viceroy and Governor-General of India between 1936 and 1943, contribute to the development of animal husbandry in India? The first episode of HistoryChatter Quicktakes tells you that amusing story.
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This special episode of HistoryChatter features a conversation with Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty, who works at the University of Chicago. He speaks about his life and career, from his early exposure to philosophy and literature to reading science and management in university to finally moving to doing history quite late in life and eventually making a series of breakthrough contributions to the discipline of researching and writing history. In this freewheeling conversation, he reflects on fundamental conceptual questions such as how to make arguments or the particularly complex ways in which the evolving biographies and locations of scholars influence their research, writing and teaching. It is a must for aspiring students of history, philosophy, law, politics, languages and literary theory. It is more relevant to non historians because it recalls and analyses in a conversational style basic questions about the historians’ methods.
Hosted by Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay
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Now that the Taliban has taken over Afghanistan, it is time to ask questions to why and how the American intervention proved such a total disaster.
HistoryChatter addresses that question by revisiting a little-known aspect of the American military intervention in Afghanistan.
In 2007, Pentagon introduced a new programme called the Human Terrain System. It involved professional anthropologists travelling with the army and talking to the average Afghan in order to enlist local support for the American intervention. This episode deals with this idea and implementation of this one of its kind collaboration between anthropologists and the army. It asks how this new programme influenced prospects of collaboration between the Academia and the industry.
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Independence Day turns 75 on 15 August 2021. It has been so long that most Indians take the freedom, independence of Swaraj for granted. But how did those revolutionaries who knew they would perhaps never see Swaraj live out their lives longing for it? This Independence Day special episode of HistoryChatter presents a detailed history of the early lives of these revolutionaries. Did you know, for instance, that Chandrasekhar Azad worked as a dockyard laborer in Mumbai or that he had been a staunch follower of Gandhi?
This and many such everyday details from the lives of revolutionaries are taken up in this episode.
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The quit India movement was the last great mass nationalist upsurge in India before partition and independence. As such, it offers an opportunity to take stock of what the nation looked like before the separation at the birth of the Indian nation.
It offers a clear idea about some of the successes and challenges that both strengthened and hobbled independent India later and continues to do it today. This episode of HistoryChatter is a basic introduction to some of those foundational puzzles and paradoxes about India, then, and now.
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Will e-books or audiobooks soon overtake hardbound or paperback books in terms of sales and popularity?
The first episode of season 2 of HistoryChatter answers this question. It offers a history of paperback books.
Paperback books created a new readership and left another enduring cultural impact. It gave birth to the popular common sense that academic scholars know better about matters of public importance. In other words, paperback books partly created and popularised the idea of the public intellectual. Looking closely at the origin and growth of paperback books, which was a whole new format serving the printed word, it becomes clear that new formats do not necessarily displace or remove older formats but create and expand new markets.
All formats-old and new-survive and thrive in their own distinctive manner.
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Past is often as diverse and flows in as many directions as the present. Yet, careful attention to the past also throws up new insights on the present and possibilities for the future.
⏳ Time to explore the large questions as well as the smaller ones.
We are excited to introduce Historychatter Season2!
Tune in as we talk about major popular movements as much as about delicate changes in popular recipes. From big history to microhistory, or deep history to public history, Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay presents serious research in an accessible and exciting format.
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Changing names sometimes causes major controversies, and sometimes it does not. HistoryChatter in this episode investigates the curious case of villages with embarrassing names.
In rural India, mockery and ridicule are commonplace and residents from villagers with embarrassing names are often anxious that neighbors, relatives, and even the government might insult or isolate them.
Yet, the process of officially changing the name of a village is a difficult and lengthy process. While there may be a number of reasons behind the naming of a village in India, in every case such names appear to subject villagers to endless mockery and embarrassment. Whenever villagers demand changes in names, it is a desperate attempt on their part to remove or rewrite an unpleasant or embarrassing history.
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Roman emperor Nero’s name is often equated with ruthlessness and cruelty in popular memory. Most often, this image revolves around the assumption that he had been happily playing a stringed instrument while the city of Rome burned in a major fire accident. Some even claim that Nero himself had arranged for the fire so that he could build a new capital in its place.
However, it is a matter of fact that much of this popular recall is not true. Nero was probably not a great emperor. He had committed plenty of violence and caused untold miseries to his subjects during his reign. Yet, it is not clear why and how his notoriety is memorised by the singular image of fiddling while Rome burned.
In this episode Historychatter presents an account of how this particular image gained ground over time. It would seem that this image of Nero’s cruelty became popular many centuries after the event. It probably had more to do with his treatment of early Christians.
This episode recalls this intriguing history of the image of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. In so doing, it asks how popular assumptions are burn and circulate over time.
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HistoryChatter walks up to a review of the history of major Hill stations in India. Following the research of Prof. Queeni Pradhan as published in her 2017 book Empire in the Hills, the second part of a multi-part series on Hill Stations recalls how the Europeans imagined the hill stations when their eyes fell upon them for the first time. Generally, they believed that these reminded them of home in England. In future, they thought of these places as a health resort, summer capital, Cantonment, and an economic and military outpost of the empire. The later episodes will focus on how they acquired these places and preceded to change them to their advantage, often by making the locals and their pasts invisible.
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HistoryChatter walks up to a review of the history of major Hill stations in India. Following the research of Prof. Queeni Pradhan as published in her 2017 book Empire in the Hills, the first part of a multi-part series on Hill Stations recalls how the Europeans imagined the hill stations when their eyes fell upon them for the first time. Generally, they believed that these reminded them of home in England. In future, they thought of these places as a health resort, summer capital, Cantonment, and an economic and military outpost of the empire. This episode of the podcast recalls these European visions and projections around the hill towns. The later episodes will focus on how they acquired these places and preceded to change them to their advantage, often by making the locals and their pasts invisible.
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HistoryChatter resumes the discussion on the early History of football based on the pioneering research of E G Dunning. As discussed in an earlier episode, traditional football began as a bloody and unruly contest among the poorer classes in England. By the eighteenth century, however, it underwent a major change in its career.
The seven earlier public schools saw their students take it up. Incidentally, these schools too were at the time going through a transformation themselves. Initially set up to educate poor students, now they were taken over by students from the aristocracy and the gentry. Urbanization and industrialization had been pulling away the poorer sections into the ranks of industrial labourers.
At public schools, football moved into an existing structure of relations between senior and junior students. The seniors themselves hardly obeyed any rules, since the masters appeared to come from relatively lower classes. There were several instances of student rebellions in all public schools in the early 19th century. By the 1840s, Thomas Arnold, the legendary Master of Rugby, came up with a set of new rules.
These rules struck a fine balance between disciplining unruly senior students and moulding them into responsible leaders. Other public schools followed suit. In 1849, Eton College introduced the rule that hands cannot be used at all during the game and a goal has to be scored under the bar posts, not above them. This was the final separation between Rugger and Soccer.
The game spread to the rest of the country over the next twenty years and to the rest of the world subsequently. That story will be taken up later.
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In the first part of the Durga puja special, we were talking about the history of the puja as a public festival. We were also looking at how the festival gave rise in recent years to a new kind of art and artists and how politics has always characterized the organization of public Durga Puja now more than ever. In part two of the Durga Puja special of HistoryChatter, we look more specifically and more contemporary issues. How are pujas in private households conducted these days? What is the nature of politics around the puja this time round? How is the Covid 19 scare going to affect footfall? Host, Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay asked these and a number of other questions to former CEO of Prasar Bharati, Mr. Jawhar Sircar, who is also an anthropologist of religion by training and published widely on contemporary politics in India and West Bengal. He shared a number of useful insights, such as how pujas have now become a site of entry into organized politics. He was quite dismissive of the Bengali sense of discretion and said many will step out enthusiastically, if necessary by ignoring health risks.
Overall though, he was hopeful that the administration would not allow for the situation to get out of hand.
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HistoryChatter in this special episode recalls a history of the Durga Puja festival. It has seen a number of shifts in its public career since the 16th century. This episode looks at these shifts. Initially, the puja would be organized by private households of wealthy landlords. More recently the puja is now organized by neighbourhood voluntary associations. Meanwhile, there have been changes in the design of the icon and the venues too. It has subsequently given rise to a new kind of public art. Finally, politics has always had a role to play in the organization of pujas as a community festival, but in recent years the state intervenes much more directly. This special episode of HistoryChatter revolves around these three axes: history, art and politics around the Durga Puja.
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Football is probably the most popular sport in the world. Yet, serious academic research on football did not begin until the 1960s.
That was a full hundred years after standard rules were introduced for the game. This episode of HistoryChatter recalls the pioneering research of E G Dunning on the history of football. It is the first part of a two-part series.
In this part, football in England is recalled since the first written reference to it in the twelfth century. It was a rough and unruly pastime of the lower classes for nearly 600 years. It had no rules and often enough looked liked like a bloody fight. It would be regularly deplored as a lowly game and banned. I recall some of the instances of this early life of football before it would be ‘civilized’ by the 1850s. That part will be addressed in the next episode.
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Several verses of Sufi saint Baba Farid are found in the holy book of the Sikhs. These are called Farid Bani. This episode of HistoryChatter deals with some questions around this surprising convergence of Islam and Sikhism.
Who was Baba Farid? Did he himself write the verses attributed to him? Who admitted those verses into the Granth Sahib and why? Is their language more important than which religious tradition they belong to? What do historians think about these questions?
We conclude that anomalies such as this show that religions were not strictly bounded in terms of doctrinal of ritual exclusivity until the late nineteenth century in India.
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Gandhi would be 151 years old today. This episode focuses on his writings and speeches during the last few months of his life.
Partition and violence had filled his mind with a sense of failure. He understood that the people of India did not take to non-violence and human kindness as an article of faith. They used it only as a convenient tactical choice when it suited them. He was not yet ready to admit defeat. He believed it was a failure of his teaching, but not of those principles themselves. He believed he could once again start from scratch. He launched another campaign. He probably wanted to call it Do or Die, part 2. He used that phrase several times while talking about his work during those last months.
This time, he had a simple and straight agenda. Everyone who has lost a home or has been made to flee from it in fear, Hindu, Muslim or Sikh, had to be reinstated. It was ethically wrong to rob anyone of his or her home. He was uncompromising.
This time he failed and was murdered. This was probably the most glorious moment of his life too. He was soldiering alone, like a real hero, committed only to his faith in the cult of human kindness, beyond popular approval or disapproval.
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This episode of history chatter looks at the early history of film censorship in India. It shows that the Indian state did not know much about the cinema industry until the 1920s.
The first attempt to coordinate censorship at the all India level did not begin until 1927. Interestingly enough, the primary objective of film censorship in India was not aesthetic but commercial. The primary objective was to prevent Hollywood or American films from flooding the Indian market. Excessive emphasis on depictions of the women’s body of physical intimacy in those films was then held up as a major reason to reject them as a harmful influence on public morality.
Censorship of films India was a result of both commercial and aesthetic concerns. Eventually, when a majority of films shown in India were made in India, the earlier commercial history was quietly forgotten. HistoryChatter examines the report of first all India commission of enquiry on films, the Indian Cinematograph Committee Report of 1927-28. Through a close reading of various chapters of the report, it recovers this forgotten commercial history of film censorship in India.
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This episode of HistoryChatter takes the audience to India and South East Asia during the Second World War. It explores the production of a series of films through which British soldiers were found sending warm private messages to their families at home, called Old Blighty films, they were commissioned by the British government agencies, as a means to boost the sagging morale of the isolated British soldiers at the Burma front.
Yet, these films rarely consider the fact that a majority of soldiers of the Fourteenth Army were Indians. Indeed, Indians or soldiers from elsewhere were sometimes used as lifeless props. Historian Steve Hawley, while researching these films, arranged for a reckoning with such memories and silences.
HistoryChatter concludes that this is how History is to be read and engaged with. It will always deliver significant but incomplete messages, and the reader and the listener must pay keen attention to what it leaves out.
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This episode of HistoryChatter takes the audience to India and South East Asia during the Second World War. It explores the production of a series of films through which British soldiers were found sending warm private messages to their families at home, called Old Blighty films, they were commissioned by the British government agencies, as a means to boost the sagging morale of the isolated British soldiers at the Burma front.
Yet, these films rarely consider the fact that a majority of soldiers of the Fourteenth Army were Indians. Indeed, Indians or soldiers from elsewhere were sometimes used as lifeless props. Historian Steve Hawley, while researching these films, arranged for a reckoning with such memories and silences.
HistoryChatter concludes that this is how History is to be read and engaged with. It will always deliver significant but incomplete messages, and the reader and the listener must pay keen attention to what it leaves out.
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History often appears as a resource to manufacture pride or embarrassment for people. That is the most common use to which ordinary individuals or groups put their pasts. The past either appears as a matter of glory or shame.
It is either highlighted or hidden, emphasized, or underplayed, remembered, or ignored. This episode wonders why history is so often used by people either as an ingredient for celebration or for guilt generation.
The episode suggests that it has something to do with the obsessive interest of the state to control its circulation. It makes the point with two examples from the recent history of India, though it also includes instances from outside India.
It also offers a perspective on how to verify facts in history. It concludes that it is necessary to understand how history is made and circulated. That understanding is useful to make sense of how history can be an effective tool with which to reason.
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Seventy years ago, ethnic Muslims in China suddenly lost their homeland. They had set up an independent republic since 1944. Communists in 1949 practically forced the leaders of that independent republic to flee. One of them came to Kashmir with about a thousand followers.
This episode of HistoryChatter recalls that perilous journey. It tracks their fortunes in India, up to the present day. Many of them became Kashmiris and Indians. Yet, their dream to set up an independent nation-state was broken into pieces. It was never to be fulfilled.
Episode 2 of HistoryChatter explores these unfulfilled dreams and painful struggles of a group of people and a nation that never became a state.
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The first episode of HistoryChatter asks a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to be an Indian? It shows that at times in history the Chinese have been called Indians, by law. It also shows that Muslims have been as legitimately been called Hindus. It concludes that all history must pay attention to contexts.
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HistoryChatter offers an informed take on our shared pasts.
Designed and performed by Anirban Bandyopadhyay (Ph.D.), a trained historian and writer, the podcast offers a perspective on the past that shows how multiple interpretations of our pasts and our histories emerge.
HistoryChatter believes diversity is not, difference and that difference does not produce inferiority of superiority. More importantly, it believes the past is made of many stories, and many more stories about the past will never be known. Yet, the past is a necessity to understand how the present has come about and where it is heading. HistoryChatter is about stories about the past that walk us through the present. It believes good history can be done with fun.
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