Author and Historian William Dalrymple at Express Adda | Indian Express

Author and Historian William Dalrymple in conversation with Anant Goenka, Executive Director, The Indian Express Group, and Seema Chishti, Deputy Editor.
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[@rajeevbhatnagar6495]

Wonderful lecture by Mr William Dalrymple and an equally wonderful Question-Answer session by him.

[@shreyashjaiswal3791]

@indianexpress please invite Manu S Pillai for a chat. Would love to know about South-Indian history. Thanks for this adda.

[@michealcurrie8272]

Rockstar historian. In Lutyens Delhi. Stay safe.

[@arupsan]

Really appreciate Indian express for this ...

[@shadabqureshi6283]

Love you express ♥️

[@utubetruthteller]

Now it makes sense i heard earlier that British loved Bengal because its people were much civilised than rest of india but bengal was more developed industrially thats why British choose Bengal as the launchpad to capture whole India.

[@giriprasad1624]

People like william dalrympal who is a Britisher wants to manipulate and rewrite history for justification of british raj, people like them only wants to hide british atrocities(like bengal famine) in Indian academia.

[@stuart9162]

@@giriprasad1624 The Indian bankers backed the East India Company had few white soldiers Sepoy were 99% are they were Indian. Even at peak never has more that 2,000 white British when India was 20,000,000, there was something strange if white Raj conquer India alone.

[@johnabram4159]

Then you dint learn anything at all. They never planned on capturing whole of India let alone using Bengal as launchpad.

[@utubetruthteller]

@@johnabram4159 all European countries were acting like vultures to make India their colonial outpost, learn some history kiddo

[@shoumomukherjee5662]

@@giriprasad1624he has hidden nothing . In his lecture on the Afghan invasion he is scathing about the British .

[@NishanthSalahudeen]

27:22 super good point, super well made. Its kind of common sense, but not so commonly understood.

[@siddharthb2633]

Wonderful!! Our history books need a different perspective.

[@mali3490]

Brilliant!

[@rennieramracha5740]

Very knowledgeable, as usual the Britisher is more knowledgeable than most Indians

[@RoyChowdhuri]

Specifics dislodges generalization; well said!

[@leonidasyt]

No point cribbing over past. India must get its act together now and work hard & smart to regain its economic might

[@utubetruthteller]

British were just lucky to build their empire which is long gone now. Every dog has its day i must say.

[@ayushimmortal2240]

History is most interesting when it has a lesson for today

[@ShubhamKrGupta-fp4st]

"India's history prime period 400-1200 AD" William Darlympe

[@araghav3921]

Basically, the Rajput era.

[@benjaminnetanyahu8582]

@@araghav3921 hindu era

[@shikamarunara295]

He is like a laughing Buddha 😂I like it

[@shivamdave684]

great

[@PastPresented]

49:35 William slightly misrepresents the relevance of Bolts' thumb-cutting story. In one long sentence Bolts exposes E.I.C. mistreatment of both weavers and silk spinners (Nagaads), and it was the spinners who cut off their own thumbs, not the weavers. Bolts supplies the further detail that during Robert Clive's former government, the Company was so keen to increase its export of raw silk that it kidnapped spinners from the workshops which had traditionally been provided for them by Armenian merchants, to make them spin in Company workshops. It is not clear whether this action provoked the spinners to cut their own thumbs, or whether that was a more recent development caused by Company attempts to reduce their pay below the levels they could earn for unskilled work. The British context of these developments is intriguing: at almost the same time as the Battle of Plassey, entirely by coincidence, a device for knitting stockings with ribbing to add elasticity for comfort was invented in Derby. At the time, the spinning of cotton yarn had not been efficiently mechanised, but there had been a huge water-powered silk yarn mill in Derby for decades, so silk ribbed stockings became fashionable, increasing the demand for silk. Unfortunately, within a few years, over-production led to a crisis in the industry; it may have been the latter problem which made the East India Company try to squeeze the pay of its workers.

[@kunalanerao4804]

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[@windswept17]

Amazing historian

[@dpatel6666]

He will thank you for your certification of his knowledge of history.

[@sadiqsd7800]

@@dpatel6666 Butthurt Sanghi lol

[@shivamdave684]

wow he predicted on china thing

[@Krish_8888]

The part which is missing from everywhere

[@DipakBose-bq1vv]

In Britain, school text books write that in Plassey in 1757, there was a war betweeb the British and French and the stupid Nawab of Bengal supported the French and lost his reign. One ambassador of India told me that he also read that.

[@negimanu8362]

High time someone write about jagat Seth...

[@shiprag75]

How did the british govt give a charter to a private company to wage wars and set up courts in a foreign nation ?

[@PastPresented]

They didn't. They originally (1599-1600) gave the East India Company the right to defend itself, and when it overstepped the mark in the 1680s, it was slapped down both by the British and the Mughal governments. Siraj ud-Daulah made a huge mistake in 1756 by capturing the Company's city of Calcutta/Kolkata, because that meant they could invoke the old "self-defence" clause. And having defeated Siraj at Palashi in 1757, the Company handed over Bengal to Mir Jafar.

[@leonidasyt]

Who is this jagat Seth and what exactly happened to him and his lineage?

[@PastPresented]

"Jagat Seth" is an honorific title, meaning "world banker" which was bestowed on the head of a family who, after being exiled from the kingdom of Marwar, sent sons to several different parts of India to start branches of a banking business, enabling them to rely on family trust to undertake long-distance credit transactions (a similar plan was followed decades later by the Rothschild family in Europe). The first of the dynasty to receive the title from the Mughal emperor (in 1723-4) was Fateh Chand, son of Manick Chand who had followed his friend Murshid Quli Khan to his new city of Murshidabad in Bengal, which became the headquarters of the family business.

[@padhibrother4037]

Mani Shankar Kya Kar raha hai 52.00

[@Praisesoffolley]

I am astonished we are giving so much footage to Mr. Darlymple from last 15 years, ( with all due respect to his all books I read too), but he is just telling the stories other writers and academic historians have so many times written. Why we do not check Vinay Lal kzbin.info?

[@advityat]

Perhaps Mr. Lal would want to write books that make history interesting and accessible to the general public. Dalrymple writes really well, it's the reason why people gravitate towards his work.

[@Praisesoffolley]

@@advityat well, there is a marketing and commercial aspirations which gives Mr. Darlymple's book publicty. Mr. Lal has written many books, however his academic and research ethics do not have those aspirations as they are meet by being Professor at UCLA. At vast length he can talk about his Indology researches and various aspects of it starting from geography, contemporary sociology etc. etc.

[@advityat]

@@Praisesoffolley There is absolutely nothing stopping him from writing books and getting his work out there. Nothing unethical about that. And if he is happy being a Prof at UCLA and not interested in getting his work out there, then that's on him. Far too often, Indian Historians tend to write academically and their stuff does not go beyond those confines. That's again on them! Dalrymple's writing style appeals to a vast number of people as he makes history readable and interesting. He brings alive time through the stories of people! If you have listened to Dalrymple speak, he has mentioned it many times over the years, that the things he writes about, are not new knowledge. They exist in the archives and primary sources. So coming back to your original astonishment at the air time Dalrymple gets, it's simply because he is the more interesting writer and has brought history out of the archives and study/academic circles!

[@Praisesoffolley]

@@advityat Right! As I said, information is already there people don't read. Tomorrow Patrick French might compete with Mr. Darlymple.

[@advityat]

@@Praisesoffolley Right, and I said, one should be an interesting enough writer to have the public care. And if people find Patrick French interesting and he ends up competing with Dalrymple, then that's that.

[@saikatbaug1937]

seema christi wife of sitaram yachuri so how she get the job ? this is left ecosystem