Anjali Arondekar

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Sex Work in Colonial India · 1 May 2026 podcast

And just like we see with any empire, today's U.S.

empire is about oil, about power.

But there's all this nonsense about we want to help people.

We want to civilize people.

So where do you think they learned that from?

Right.

So 1857, there's a massive what we in South Asian history would call a war of independence war.

Colonial historians would call a war of rebellion, which is the major 1857 battle, which of course rocks the kind of grounds of the East India Company.

The British state, the British people at the top say, well, militarization isn't working.

We need a bureaucracy.

We need to set up machinery infrastructure.

We need more people on the ground who are managing rather than just using rule of force.

So 1857 is seen as the official installation of the British Empire, the Order of the Queen.

And then, of course, independence in 1947.

But 1947 is also where India and Pakistan emerge as divided nations across a genocide of over a million people.

So India and Pakistan are liberated.

So that's sort of the very checkered history.

But again, these are origin stories that we need just to remind us that time exists.

But of course, the British were there as early as the 16th century, as travelers, as voyagers, as traders.

But I think the official installation is what helps us mark these bookends of the

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