Ep 244: The Multitudes of Our Maharajahs
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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What Happened in Forty Seven to Get the Princely States In?
Ondot: What satar patel and weepy menon do, for what we would consider a good cause to day, is an act of colonialism that is actually harsher and more brutal than the original british act of colonialism. They derive their influence in the princely states over a long period of time with a lot of violence,. Ondot: The marajas lost sympathy in that final decade before independence until the mid thirties. Nobody could invision in india without them. It was not a police operation. It was an invasion. And i'm glad it happened, now that it's over."
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