Anjali Arondekar
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first heard May 2026
last heard 1 May
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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Sex Work in Colonial India · 1 May 2026
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It lets everyone off the hook.
It lets me blame Brits.
It lets the Brits feel bad about what they did.
And it lets South Asians and Indians forget that we had lots of other forms of hierarchicalization, like the caste system, like religion, right, that already created divides that the British use.
That's why it was called divide and rule.
Right.
They used the differences that were already there to amplify the differences that they wanted to exploit.
So I would say, yes, there is obviously the British exploited and brought in education, infrastructure, all kinds of things, but they also used what was already there.
I mean, I think that's why the empire lasted for as long as it did.
Yeah.
They weren't a very hearty people.
That's why all of the kinds of foods that were eaten, they were dying, they were sickly.
What's remarkable is how did a small group of sickly white people colonize so much of the globe?
Because they mobilized what was already there.
And I think that's a lesson to be learned in terms of exploitation and collaboration.
We know that from histories of slavery as well, that slavery would not have been possible without local collaborators.
If you look at Ghana, any of the major slave trading points.
So I think it's at this stage in history, I think, where, you know, that is still a little bit of the past.
And now that, you know, we can have these conversations freely and in a spirit of solidarity.
I think it's important for us to think about the messy entanglements and how blame doesn't get us anywhere.
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