The Three Weeks That Made India

Grand Tamasha by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Sep 9, 202600:47:28News & Politics

Josy Joseph joins Milan on the podcast this week to talk about his best-selling new book, The Birth of a Nation: Twenty-One Days That Changed India, which reconstructs the dramatic three weeks leading up to August 15, 19...

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