
Ep 172: The Many Cities of Delhi
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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How Do You Tease Out Issues of Reliability?
It all depends on who's telling those stories and where they have come from. Some might be writing two centuries after what has happened, when you can't be sure whether they'll be correct. Most of the sources are turkish or persian, pesian sources. Tare aren't so many indian sources about the lives of those sultans. And as far as the heat of the helve is concerned, now, he ran from pillar to post, hiding from the british. So i see no reason why he would be inoli colouring it.
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