Historychatter Podcast
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Historychatter Podcast
HistoryChatter offers an informed take on our shared pasts. Designed and performed by Anirban Bandyopadhyay (Ph.D.), a trained historian and writer, the podcast offers a perspective on the past that shows how multiple interpretations of our pasts and our histories emerge. HistoryChatter believes div...
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S10E1: Rediscovering Indus Cities, with Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri
2024 marks the twenty year anniversary of Finding Forhotten Ciities, Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri’s landmark book on the various events and personalities whi...
S9E4: Operation Vijay | Konkan Uprising 4
When economic blockade encouraged the Portuguese to hold on to Goa rather than abandon it, India finally decided to use force. Yet its long held pacif...
S9E3: How An Economic Blockade Made Goa Prosperous | Konkan Uprising 3
The third episode of Konkan Uprising, our special series of the liberation of Goa, focuses on the economic blockade during the late 1950s. India did n...
S9E2: Internationalising the Goa problem | Konkan Uprising 2
Between 1946 and 1956, the Goa question had entered the international domain. India became independent but did not want to annex Goa by force. It stre...
S9E2: Goa Towards Liberation | Konkan Uprising 1
The people of Goa fell into a peculiar problem this month due to a recent change in Indian passport laws. Early last year, Prime Minister Modi claimed...
S9E1: Konkan Uprising: Goa's Liberation Saga | Trailer
🔎 Why 🧐 did #Nehru delay the liberation of #Goa from the Portuguese and make it a part of Bharat? A delay that was 15years after India got its indep...
S8E2: When South India started drinking coffee
Coffee drinking on a large scale did not start in India before the early 20th century. Once it became popular as a leisure drink, many commentators re...
S8E1: G20 & History!- All you need to know
The G20, also known as the Group of Twenty, includes Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the...
S7E4: Sikkhim, R&AW, & Integration | India United #5
Sikkim followed a different trajectory from other former princely states. India virtually treated it as a foreign country, until early 1970s.
T...
S7E4: The Sikkim puzzle | India United 4
Jawaharlal Nehru was firmly against hereditary monarchs. But he made an exception in the case of Sikkim.
He let Sikkim’s King stay on, until af...
S7E3: Riots, Insurgency, UN and Operation Polo | | India United 3
In the third episode on the incorporation of princely states within independent India, I take up a detailed case study of Hyderabad. It was the larges...
S7E2: Men(on) The Mission | India United 2
Integration of various princely states to the newly independent state of India was carried out primarily by the States Department. It came into being...
S7E1: The Dream of a Princestan? | India United 1
Given a choice, many native princes did not want to become a part of the independent Indian republic in 1947.
Quite a few of them had even hatc...
S7E1: India United: Princely States and the Indian Republic | Official Trailer | Sardar Patel Documentary
🗓️15th of August 1947
On one side we see it as the day of India's Independence, on the other, the day when the country got partitioned.
S6E3: And The Maruti Story | The Great Indian Car Dream 3
The Government of India began to encourage the manufacture of a small car only by the 1970s. Sanjay Gandhi, Prime Minister’s son and an automobile fan...
S6E2: The Bumpy Ride | The Great Indian Car Dream 2
The first thirty years after independence were a bumpy ride for the private car dream. Automobile was considered integral to India’s self sufficiency...
S6E1: The Turning Wheels of India's Automotive Revolution | The Great Indian Car Dream 1
A small car is not an unattainable aspiration for a middle-class family in India today. Forty years ago though, it was. Cars were considered an unaffo...
S6E1: Introducing: The Great Indian Car Dream
A small car is not an unattainable aspiration for a middle-class family in India today. Forty years ago though, it was!
Cars were considered an...
S5E4: Multiple Faces of Dalit Politics ft Prof. Sudha Pai & Dr. Sajjan Kumar
HistoryChatter enters into contemporary history in this special episode. Anirban speaks to political scientists Prof. Sudha Pai and Dr. Sajjan Kumar o...
S5E3: Whatever happened to the Hindustani language?
Once the British conquered India, they invested in learning Indian languages. Initially, they searched for one common language for the whole subcontin...
S5E2: Branding the Mahenjodaro Girl ft. Dr. Ashish Kumar
There was some controversy about whether it was right or fair to clothe the nude bronze figurine from Mohenjo Daro when it was recently adopted as the...
S5E1: A Brief History of Cricket Commentary
Cricket commentary has just turned hundred years old. It has undergone great transformation as it grew from modest beginnings in Australia and England...
S4E6: BONUS EPISODE: The Explosion The Never Happened | Atomic India 6
India came close to testing an atomic bomb several times between 1974 and 1998. One of those times was in 1983 when Indira Gandhi withdrew authorizati...
S4E5: Afterlife Of The Explosion | Atomic India 5
What happened to the Indian nuclear programme after the explosion?
Did it settle into a regular rhythm of making bombs?
Did it focus on...
S4E4: The Explosion | Atomic India 4
India’s atomic energy research took a new turn by the 1960s.
On the one hand, the atomic scientists had to seek out a new challenge as the obje...
S4E3: India's Time To React | Atomic India | 3
Atomic energy research in India made only modest progress in the early years. The cult of secrecy around it often provoked criticism.
Indian at...
S4E2: Homi Bhabha and The Travancore Diplomacy | Atomic India | 2
Indian scientists and politicians carried out vigorous discussions on how to organize advanced scientific research on an industrial scale in India as...
S4E1: The Reaction Begins | Atomic India | 1
Science and technology were considered as the face of modernity in independent India. A mastery and application of technology on an industrial scale w...
S4E1: Introducing: Atomic India
Atomic energy research in India started well before independence, but since independence, it has assumed an uncontested priority above all other branc...
S3E10: Bombayness and its pickle factory: a conversation with Amrit Gangar | Bombay Born 10
In the tenth and final episode of the series Bombay Born, I talk to Amrit Gangar, who has researching and writing on films and Bombay for over forty y...
S3E9: The Voice of Bombay | Bombay Born 9
The Bombay Chronicle emerged as the voice of Bombay by the early twentieth century. Between the 1910s and 1950s, but especially since the 1920s, it re...
S3E8: The 1890s Housing Crisis in Bombay | Bombay Born 8
Bombay was transformed from a prosperous port city to a major industrial metropolis largely through the expansion of the cotton textile industry. The...
S3E7: The first Modern Hotels in Bombay | Bombay Born 7
Bombay did not have respectable hotels even during the 1850s. There were some taverns but they did not attract the respectable folks, who usually foun...
S3E6: Post Haste in Bombay | Bombay Born 6
One of the factors which gradually rescued Mumbai or Bombay from the effects of the crash of 1865 was the development of an improved communication sys...
S3E5: Scam 1865: Bank Of Bombay Falls | Bombay Born 5
Mumbai or Bombay was struck by the first major share market scandal in India in 1865.
The American Civil War and the sudden cotton export boom i...
S3E4: The Crash Of 1864-65 | Bombay Born 4
Mumbai or Bombay was struck by the first major share market scandal in India in 1865.
The American Civil War and the sudden cotton export boom i...
S3E3: 1857 and life in the Maidan | Bombay Born 3
Join us on this 10-part journey as we decode, the rise of Bombay
In the third episode of Bombay Born, I revisit 1857 in Mumabai. Bombay largely...
S3E2: The Fort and the Maidan | Bombay Born 2
The second episode of Bombay Born begins with the coming of the Railways and the demolition of the Ramparts. These two developments in the 1850s and 1...
S3E1: The Harbour and the Cyclone | Bombay Born 1
The history of Mumbai or Bombay took a major new turn once the British took over in the late seventeenth century.
They not only envisaged a grea...
S3E1: Introducing: BOMBAY BORN | (The Rise of Bombay)
Mumbai or Bombay has long been a city of dreams, aspirations and untold wealth. Yet, even in 1850s, it was a narrow walled town.
Bombay Born re...