Conflicted: A History Podcast

As Partition finally becomes reality in August 1947, the new boundary sparks a mass migration in the Punjab and Bengal. Atrocity and ethnic cleansing soon follow. The Sikhs, a long-ignored but well-armed religious minority, mobilize to stake their claim. Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru plunge into the fray, desperate to assuage a refugee crisis in the city of Delhi. Sources:Akbar, M.J. Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. 2011.Tharoor, Shashi. Nehru: The Invention of India. 2003.Tharoor, Shashi. Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India. 2017.Khan, Yasmin. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. 2007.Guha, Ramachandra. Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World. 2018.Sarila, Narendra Singh. The Shadow of the Great Game. 2005.Charles Rivers Editors. The Punjab. 2018.Charles Rivers Editors. British India. 2017.Puri, Kavita. Partition Voices: Untold British Stories. 2019.Malhotra, Aanchal. Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects From A Continent Divided. 2017.Von Tunzelmann, Alex. Indian Summer. 2007.Zakaria, Anam. The Footprints of Partition. 2015.Ahmed Akbar. Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity. 1997.Urvashi, Butalia. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. 1998.White-Spunner, Barney. Partition. 2017.Lawrence, James. Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India. 1997.Hamdani, Yasser Latif. Jinnah: A Life. 2020.Fischer, Louis. Gandhi. 1950.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s 1947. After many long years of struggle, India is about to gain its independence from the British Empire. But freedom will come at a cost. To facilitate the handover of power, the Crown sends Lord Louis Mountbatten – the last Viceroy – to hammer out a deal between the competing political factions. Muhammed Ali Jinnah battles his terminal illness and uncovers a shocking secret. Jawaharlal Nehru falls for a captivating woman. And all the while, India’s Muslim and Hindu communities prepare for a bloody civil war.  Sources:Akbar, M.J. Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. 2011.Tharoor, Shashi. Nehru: The Invention of India. 2003.Tharoor, Shashi. Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India. 2017.Khan, Yasmin. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. 2007.Guha, Ramachandra. Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World. 2018.Sarila, Narendra Singh. The Shadow of the Great Game. 2005.Charles Rivers Editors. The Punjab. 2018.Charles Rivers Editors. British India. 2017.Puri, Kavita. Partition Voices: Untold British Stories. 2019.Malhotra, Aanchal. Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects From A Continent Divided. 2017.Von Tunzelmann, Alex. Indian Summer. 2007.Zakaria, Anam. The Footprints of Partition. 2015.Ahmed Akbar. Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity. 1997.Urvashi, Butalia. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. 1998.White-Spunner, Barney. Partition. 2017.Lawrence, James. Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India. 1997.Hamdani, Yasser Latif. Jinnah: A Life. 2020.Fischer, Louis. Gandhi. 1950.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The podcast discusses the crumbling of the British Raj in India and the rise of Muhammed Ali Jinnah, who calls for the creation of Pakistan. It explores the Hindu-Muslim tensions that explode into violence during the Great Calcutta Killing. The podcast also delves into the conflicting perceptions of Jinnah and the looming power vacuum left by the departing British. It discusses the charismatic leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru and the potential for him to become a dictator. The episode uncovers the mystery behind a piece of writing by Nehru and explores the demands for the creation of Pakistan. It delves into the violent consequences of Direct Action Day and the urgency of bringing Pakistan into existence.

Explore the history of the Partition of India, including the violent exchanges between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, the complicated marriage of Dickie and Edwinna Mountbatten, a young Mohandas Gandhi's encounter at a brothel, Gandhi's role in India's partition, the Amritsar Massacre, and the religious and cultural dynamics that led to violence and partition.

On September 1st, 1983, a South Korean commercial airliner inexplicably drifted 200 miles off course into restricted Soviet airspace. In response, a Soviet fighter plane intercepted the aircraft, fired two missiles, and shot it down, killing all 269 people on board. In this standalone episode, we examine one of the most enduring outrages of the Cold War, a mystery that baffled investigators and inflamed political animus for more than a decade. SOURCES:Degani, Asaf. Taming HAL: Designing Interfaces Beyond 2001. Westad, Odd Arne. The Cold War: A World History. 2017.Service, Robert. The End of the Cold War. 2015.Downing, Taylor. 1983: Reagan, Andropov, And A World On The Brink. 2018.Dobbs, Michael. Down With Big Brother. 1997. Hersh, Seymour. The Target Is Destroyed. 1986. Dallin, Alexander. Black Box: KAL 007 and the Superpowers. 1985.https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/digitallibrary/dailydiary/1982-09.pdf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After weeks of uncertainty and fear, the Great Crash finally arrives on October 24th, 1929. While America’s financial infrastructure burns, Jesse Livermore makes $100 million in a single week. Wall Street’s great cheerleader, Sunshine Charlie Mitchell, schemes and maneuvers to puff up the bull market and preserve his legacy. Amidst the wreckage of the Great Depression, a scrappy immigrant lawyer named Ferdinand Pecora leads a Federal investigation into Sunshine Charlie and National City Bank that shakes the very bedrock of American financial law.   SOURCES:Ahamed, Liaquat. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. 2009.Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. 1931Blumenthal, Karen. Six Days in October. 2002. Charles Rivers Editors. Jesse Livermore. 2021.Charles Rivers Editors. Wall Street. 2020.Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash 1929. 1955.Galbraith, John Kenneth. A Short History of Financial Euphoria. 1990.Geisst, Charles R. Wall Street: A History. 1997.Klein, Maury. Rainbow’s End. 2001. Morris, Charles R. A Rabble of Dead Money. 2017.Nations, Scott. A History of the United States in Five Crashes. 2017.Parker, Selwyn. The Great Crash. 2008.Perino, Michael. The Hellhound of Wall Street. 2010.Rubython, Tom. Jesse Livermore: Boy Plunger. 2016.Thomas, Gordon. Morgan-Witts, Max. The Day the Bubble Burst. 1979. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special featured episode of History Daily, host Lindsay Graham gives an atmospheric retelling of the events of December 2nd, 1956. On that day, the communist revolutionary Fidel Castro launched the Cuban Revolution.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As economic disaster looms in the Fall of ‘29, the American public is blissfully unaware, entranced by stratospheric share prices and the sunny proclamations of Wall Street cheerleaders. Jesse Livermore, the infamous “Boy Trader”, follows his hunches and prepares for the coming catastrophe. The Federal Reserve, rudderless and impotent after the untimely death of its leader Ben Strong, sits on its hands. “Sunshine” Charlie Mitchell, chief executive of the country’s largest bank, injects fresh life into the boom as the stock market bubble inflates to dangerous heights of make-believe. SOURCES:Ahamed, Liaquat. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. 2009.Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. 1931Blumenthal, Karen. Six Days in October. 2002. Charles Rivers Editors. Jesse Livermore. 2021.Charles Rivers Editors. Wall Street. 2020.Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash 1929. 1955.Galbraith, John Kenneth. A Short History of Financial Euphoria. 1990.Geisst, Charles R. Wall Street: A History. 1997.Klein, Maury. Rainbow’s End. 2001. Morris, Charles R. A Rabble of Dead Money. 2017.Nations, Scott. A History of the United States in Five Crashes. 2017.Parker, Selwyn. The Great Crash. 2008.Perino, Michael. The Hellhound of Wall Street. 2010.Rubython, Tom. Jesse Livermore: Boy Plunger. 2016.Thomas, Gordon. Morgan-Witts, Max. The Day the Bubble Burst. 1979. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover the fatal infatuation of the American public with the stock market in the 'Roaring 20s'. Learn about one debauched day trader, Jesse Livermore, who foresaw the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Explore the economic consequences of World War One on Germany and America. Delve into the thriving era of the 1920s, Henry Ford's impact, and the allure of stock market investments. Unveil the rise of stock market optimism, fueled by iconic financiers and fortune tellers, leading to the historic crash.

Some revere it as an art form, others revile it as a blood sport, but no matter where you stand, few traditions stir up strong emotions quite like the centuries-old ritual of bullfighting. Born in the villages of rural Spain, refined in the crowded arenas of Seville, and fetishized by wandering aficionados like Ernest Hemingway, the “corrida de toros” holds a special place not only in Spanish cultural life but in human history. Beneath the pomp and pageantry, will we find senseless animal cruelty? Or a transcendent reflection on the human condition? SOURCES:Bailey, C. (2007). “Africa Begins at the Pyrenees”: Moral Outrage, Hypocrisy, and the Spanish Bullfight. Ethics and the Environment.Bentley, Logan. (1962). “What The Horns Couldn’t Do”. Sports Illustrated.Colenutt, Mark. Spanish Bull: A Provocative Guide to Bullfighting. 2014.Conrad, Barnaby. The Death of Manolete. 1958.Dozier, Thomas. (1955) “The One Who Lived”. Sports Illustrated.Gamado, Ignacio. Discovering the World of Bullfighting. 2021.Hardouin-Fugier, Elisabeth. Bullfighting: A Troubled History. 2010.Hemingway, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. 1932Kennedy, A.L.: On Bullfighting. 1999.McCormick, John. Bullfighting: Art, Technique & Spanish Society. 1998Mitchell, Timothy. Blood Sport: A Social History of Spanish Bullfighting. 1991.Ribezzo, Viviana. Adresi, Marta. The Corrida: The History of Bullfighting from its Origins to Present Day. 2018.Tauromaquia. Jaime Alekos. 2017.Tynan, Kenneth. (1955) “The Death of Manolete”. The Paris Review  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices