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William Dalrymple

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Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

And even the Afghans have a nice memorial in the middle of Lahore in the form of the Zamzam gun, which is the great gun of the Punjab, which is an Afghan gun.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

But there's nothing from the Sikh period which is visible or which is celebrated.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

There are beautiful Sikh pavilions, of course, in Lahore Fort.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

Lajpat Rai, who's not a famous name in Britain, but is well known in India, leading early nationalist.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

1907, on that visit, she meets him.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

And she's very much in this group of people who will be in the center of what will be the Indian National Congress and so on.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

So there's a moment of sort of complete revelation that this people that she thought respected her have rejected her and the people she's forgotten about, her own people, the Sikhs and the people of Northern India, cluster around her and give her the respect that she's not been getting from anyone else.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

She's completely different.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

For those who don't know who the suffragettes are, explain to us, Anita, who they are, because major force at the beginning of the 20th century.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

They love bombs every so often.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

Yeah.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

Now, all this culminates in Black Friday, the 18th of November, 1910.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

And the man behind it is... Well, Winston Churchill.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

Queen of the suffragettes.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

And what happens to Sophia herself?

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

Is she assaulted?

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

Roughly like another loud of the Punjab on this podcast.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

Five two.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

So how is this covered, Anita?

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

So she now has a taste for this.