S10E1: Rediscovering Indus Cities, with Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri
2024 marks the twenty year anniversary of Finding Forhotten Ciities, Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri's landmark book on the various events and persona...
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Historychatter Podcast
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 p...
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S9E4: Operation Vijay | Konkan Uprising 4
When economic blockade encouraged the Portuguese to hold on to Goa rather than abandon it, India finally decided to use force. Yet its long...
S9E3: How An Economic Blockade Made Goa Prosperous | Konkan Uprising 3
The third episode of Konkan Uprising, our special series of the liberation of Goa, focuses on the economic blockade during the late 1950s. I...
S9E2: Internationalising the Goa problem | Konkan Uprising 2
Between 1946 and 1956, the Goa question had entered the international domain. India became independent but did not want to annex Goa by forc...
S9E2: Goa Towards Liberation | Konkan Uprising 1
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 Mo...
S9E1: Konkan Uprising: Goa's Liberation Saga | Trailer
🔎 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...
S8E2: When South India started drinking coffee
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 comme...
S8E1: G20 & History!- All you need to know
The G20, also known as the Group of Twenty, includes Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy,...
S7E4: Sikkhim, R&AW, & Integration | India United #5
Sikkim followed a different trajectory from other former princely states. India virtually treated it as a foreign country, until early 1970s...
S7E4: The Sikkim puzzle | India United 4
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...
S7E3: Riots, Insurgency, UN and Operation Polo | | India United 3
In the third episode on the incorporation of princely states within independent India, I take up a detailed case study of Hyderabad. It was...
S7E2: Men(on) The Mission | India United 2
Integration of various princely states to the newly independent state of India was carried out primarily by the States Department. It came i...
S7E1: The Dream of a Princestan? | India United 1
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 h...
S7E1: India United: Princely States and the Indian Republic | Official Trailer | Sardar Patel Documentary
🗓️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...
S6E3: And The Maruti Story | The Great Indian Car Dream 3
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 auto...
S6E2: The Bumpy Ride | The Great Indian Car Dream 2
The first thirty years after independence were a bumpy ride for the private car dream. Automobile was considered integral to India’s self su...
S6E1: The Turning Wheels of India's Automotive Revolution | The Great Indian Car Dream 1
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...
S6E1: Introducing: The Great Indian Car Dream
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...
S5E4: Multiple Faces of Dalit Politics ft Prof. Sudha Pai & Dr. Sajjan Kumar
HistoryChatter enters into contemporary history in this special episode. Anirban speaks to political scientists Prof. Sudha Pai and Dr. Sajj...
S5E3: Whatever happened to the Hindustani language?
Once the British conquered India, they invested in learning Indian languages. Initially, they searched for one common language for the whole...