Preview of Winds of Change - Hostile Takeover

The first half of Episode 2 - Hostile Takeover. Listen to the full
episode here:
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After the death of Aurangzeb, the United East India Company
benefitted from the political chaos of 18th century India. Allying
with, fighting against, and eventually dominating the Nawabs of
Bengal and Arcot, the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Peshwa of the Maratha
Confederacy, and the Sultans of Mysore. At the Battles of Plassey
and Buxar, Company generals like Sir Robert Clive asserted British
authority over massive territories, and the Carnatic Wars hobbled
their European rivals. The British Empire in India was on the rise,
but what goes up must come down. Subscribe to the mailing list at
LangnessMedia.com Thank you to my guest historians: Philip J.
Stern, Professor of History at Duke, and author of The
Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern
Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2011) and Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations
that built British Colonialism (Harvard: Harvard University Press,
2023). Jon Wilson, Professor of Modern History at King’s College,
London, and author of India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Chaos
of Empire (London: Simon & Schuster, 2016) Rupali Mishra,
Associate Professor of History at Auburn University, and author of
A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East
India Company (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2018) Benjamin R.
Siegel, Associate Professor of History at Boston University, and
author of Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern
India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) Christina
Welsch, Assistant Professor of History at the College of Wooster,
and author of The Company's Sword: The East India Company and the
Politics of Militarism, 1644-1858 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2022) Thank you to my guest voice actors: Robin Pierson,
host of the History of Byzantium Podcast. David Crowther, host of
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