Ep 244: The Multitudes of Our Maharajahs
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Baroda State - I Am Sovereign
Of about a hundred and 67 seditious, inof revolutionary propaganda, books that are published in india and which are banned by the british government, 17 have emerged from baruda. At one bombay police raid baroda, get to two presses and identify these books. They find a book called vegetable medicines, which is actually about bomb making. And they hold the marajas govenment to account. Maraja doesn't sack them, he demotes them. One of them gets angry andh he's not happy being demoted, so he resigns. He gives him ten thousand rupees as a gift. All of these are clear signals to the britishes
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