Very good high level view. Waiting for the microscopic episodes soon. Starting from the debunking of Aryan INVASION theory to now and nipping in the bud the argument that North Indians and South Indians are different. Also, if that theory is right, why the Mughal and Brits are not hated as Aryans are. Political bigotry has to go. Kudos!
Very informative video. You know, another great topic for your videos would be North East India, Pragjyotishpur at that time was one of the only places that mughals were unable to conquer. The ahom defeated them. North East India was also one of the last places conquered by British in 1826 which was because of the Anglo-Burmese war resulting in the signing of Yandaboo treaty. Because of the internal war among the Ahom nobles, Burmese were invited and then they started their atrocities. To get rid of them, the Ahoms had to get help of the British. It's kind of similar to how other parts of India was colonized but at the same time very interesting. Keep up the good work🤍
I enjoyed this podcast series, however part 2 was less well researched and presented and was a bit preachy in tone. You went very fast though the British period, not really giving any details and glossing over significant aspects of it like famines. Recent studies on excess mortality suggest way more than 30 million killed in the famines. The numbers suggested in different studies have been as high as hundreds of millions to even 1.8 billion. You didn't tell us any of the details how Britain destroyed Indian rich trading class and forced them into subsistence farming, cash crop farming and scavenging. Many of the so called low and scheduled castes today belonged to these once very wealthy trading castes. You didn't really go into the details of how Britain depopulated all areas of India under British administration and how the areas served by extensive rail networks had the highest mortality. Aside from that, it wasn't just death by famines, but Britain had forced Indian people into starvation and recently medical studies confirms the high rate of heart disease and diabetes in Indians is the result of this. Indian life expectancy had fallen to 20 years old by 1900, thats as bad as slaves living during the Roman period. It really gives you a good estimation for how little Indian lives mattered to the British. While GDP figures do matter, you haven't looked at the other HDI factors like literacy and life expectancy that definitely did improve after 1947. When Britain left India Indian literacy rate was between 15-20%, those living in extreme poverty 90% and life expectancy between 25 and 30 years. Even during the shambles of socialist economic misrule, these indicators vastly improved. Simply because India was no longer being governed for the benefit of a foreign country, but for the benefit of its own people.
The thumb of weavers were cut and their looms were destroyed by Britishers acc to Dutch sources( as quoted Shashi Taroor) but you told weavers cut their thumb themselves- can you please say where is the source of this? Are you also sugarcoating like marxist historians?
It would be better to present some movie or presentations as the main thing on screen instead of just your face all the time. After sometime it has started looking borning stuff and listening to some baba monologues. Improve your presentation please.
