Ep 244: The Multitudes of Our Maharajahs
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Rajahs, I Have International Reach
The rajahs were essentially trying to communicate their audience that look, i have international reach. The travancomarja still fed 15 thousand brahmins on state events. They would not allow themselves to be treated by the british as just these exotic exhibits. So dressing i in a dull gray coat, wearing trousers and shoes, is a way of signalling that i am part of the same cosmopolitan, global elite. I am part of that same thing. I may be brown, but i can also lay claim to that particular in a worldnd you cannot look down at me as though i am just a sort of brop that's here to looks pretty while real men who
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