I really enjoyed watching Swara in the lead role. She was strong, inspiring, seducing. Also loved Priyanka! All the negative reviews seem "organised", so do not let them stop you from watching this super cute show.
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A complete whitewashing of history
2 November 2019
I think calling it a British-centric documentary is an understatement. It completely glazes over the violence of the company - how it forced the trade agreements, won territories through violence, coerced the rulers to serve them. It just says British were successful traders and got permits from the Mughal empire... also Many of the initial expeditions were actually just British "traders" stealing (I think it's called piracy) other countries' goods from their ships. I'm neither British, nor Indian or South Asian, but a European with a keen eye for history that doesn't whitewash the violence. The way this documentary skips multiple facts is incredible and in some ways a true mirror of what majority of the British people know about the "Empire" (which is often that South Asians at least got railways...). I went to school in Britain and was shocked how little they learn and further how little accountability they take for destroying the resources of an entire subcontinent and getting terribly rich as a state on the back of it (while millions died in famines).
If you want an accurate description of the rise of the EIC, please read "the Anarchy", by William Dalrymple, a British historian living in New Delhi for decades. Just don't watch this whitewashed documentary that claims to be objective.
If you want an accurate description of the rise of the EIC, please read "the Anarchy", by William Dalrymple, a British historian living in New Delhi for decades. Just don't watch this whitewashed documentary that claims to be objective.
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