The Scandal That Shaped Partition: India’s First Prime Minister
5/5/20269 min
Unlock the full episode and the complete members’ miniseries by joining the Empire Club at empirepoduk.com How did the first Prime Minister of India start an affair with the wife of the last Viceroy? Who was Jawaharlal Nehru and how did he become part of the independence movement? Why was he furious about his first marriage? In Empire’s first members’ miniseries, Anita is joined by Alex Von Tunzelmann to tell the story of the love triangle that completely transformed the pathway to Partition. How did the intimate relationship between three powerful individuals change the shape of India forever? Email: empire@goalhanger.com Instagram: @empirepoduk Blue Sky: @empirepoduk X: @empirepoduk Assistant Producer: Imogen Marriott Social Producer: Charlie Johnson Producer: Anouska Lewis Executive Producer: Dom Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsWilliam Dalrymple· Host0:00
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[instrumental music] Anita and I have decided we're going to take it in turns to do a deep dive into a period of history or a historical character that we are completely obsessed with, or in my case, a place. Anita, it's your turn first, and you've chosen to revisit a period that Empire listeners will no doubt be rather familiar with, because we've now done it twice in various ways, uh, on Empire, most recently with Sam, the Partition of India. But this time you're exploring something we didn't really go into in any detail, which is also one of the most scandalous and perhaps