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(English (Auto-Generated) ) Portillo's Empire Journey - British East India Company - Kolkata - EPISODE - 1 (DownSub - Com)
(English (Auto-Generated) ) Portillo's Empire Journey - British East India Company - Kolkata - EPISODE - 1 (DownSub - Com)
planet
europe
most shameful
africa
britain
empire
in the crown of
globalization of today
in india britain's imperial power was
with guns
exploitation
divine
greed
the world
gradually converted
imagination
ancient civilizations
reign
colonial idea
and when
prestige
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1901
planet
glamour of
opportunistic
villain
profit-hungry corporation
millions
forms
india
all
but forgotten ah
entrance
grand room
shropshire landowner
job
to become
present-day inhabitants
very imposing
by the mughals
subcontinent
immense wealth
in india
plassey
trading venture
ruler
of bengal
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shareholders in britain
concentration of riches
world's
wealth
india
pepper spices silks cottons
trading concessions
[Music]
ministry of culture
dull years
battle started
a buccaneer
cunning his
ruthlessness in getting things done
untrader-like he turned
a miserable group of
success
leverage to force
mughals
money
share
company
pockets too
treasures
plundered riches
in bengal
disastrous consequences
province
almost 10
lines of supply
man-made famine
type of exploitation
that the world has not seen the
convergence
rampant greed
crisis
run
mysterious circumstances
fortunes by such
impelled him
company
history's biggest
narcotics dealer
india company
empire in india
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british market
chinese people
in britain's
narcotic
transport
profitable
addicted
a lovely cuppa
wellesley
william pitt
and in india
territories
and installing puppet princes
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multinational company
this more
at barrett poor
royalty
ostentation
in display
governor general
in fact this is
british style
superb proportions
veranda
the outside
stately home
that air
typhoon
the entrance
the house
painstakingly restored
india company
say
to control india
maharaja
foreseeing
british empire
establishing
that
history
shared history
by
global architecture
was no mistaking
it wasn't enough
christian missionaries
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consisted mainly of
missionaries
insurrection
to load it
revolt and he
year
the civilians
outnumbered them
attacks on europeans
rampage
the seaports
interfering
made to function
these
completely
they don't
therefore
them
personified by an
teeming millions
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rebellion
restored
but the british government could no
india company
been an embarrassment
india
raj
mother
corinthian columns
deliveries
required
to run indian civil servants and troops
million
1857
couldn't just be
you
lines of
and soldiers
are able to administer india all of
india
districts
had a
police superintendent
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empire's display
by him
emperor
the
institution
to this place
sprung flow
empire's leaders
because
enough
here
winston churchill
here
barrackpore was an approximation of home
england
slice of england
british pursuits
transplanted to asia
the india
much
broth
served
a tiffin lunch the kind of food that
brass
malaga tony
ever invite
upon
cars and
outside who
life
portion
allowed so
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minority
created
population
brewing
a success
1901
railway tracks
servants
for self-government
and later demanding independence
decision
empire in
province
it
[Music]
was met
tagore led
national mourning
but
wounding protest
partition of bengal
surendra malik
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families
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muslims
motherland
perform this
raj
happening of
not only splitting the land of india but
splitting
africa so
a bigger figure
faces of the
world's wealth
these beautiful
the dust
the world
great riches of
millennia
linoleum
needed india to
be deployed
reward
by australia
and canada
self-government
broken
amritsar
bark
civilians
many indians
to go and fight
complex
be in 1919 again
independence
really trust
theaters of war
catastrophic famine
1943
holocaust
be
confidence
washed away
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home rule
later
with the famine during the war time in
bengal
victorious
once more
subjugation
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past
but by and large i think we have come to
was
soul
tolerance
india change
declined
colonial interests
british rule
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democracy
together
systems of law
largest economies
relationship
easier to understand
repository of riches
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in the next program i discover how
next friday at 9.
changed britain
goes
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