Historychatter Podcast
1) 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 which led to the discovery of Indus Valley civilizati...Show More
2) 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 pacifist position in international diplomacy misled Por...Show More
3) 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 not want to make a military intervention, even thou...Show More
4) 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 stressed Goa’s social and cultural unity with India bu...Show More
5) 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 that Jawaharlal Nehru deliberately delayed Goa’s ...Show More
6) 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 independence from the #BritishRaj?? Was it on purpose? ...Show More
7) 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 responded to its novel appeal. Some believed it was ...Show More
8) 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 Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, ...Show More
9) 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. The final episode of the series India United explores the ...Show More
10) 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 after his death. His daughter Indira Gandhi believed it was...Show More