The Scandal That Shaped Partition: The Affair (Ep 3)
5/19/20266 min
Unlock the full episode and the complete members’ miniseries by joining the Empire Club at empirepoduk.com How did Edwina Mountbatten literally fall into the arms of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1946? Who was Subhas Chandra Bose and why did he travel to Nazi Germany? How did Louis Mountbatten also become close with Nehru and in what way did this change Indian politics? In Episode 3 of Empire’s first members’ miniseries, Anita is joined once again by Alex Von Tunzelmann to discuss the moment that Edwina Mountbatten and Nehru met for the first time, and how their relationship changed the course of Partition. 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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Anita Anand· Host0:18
[upbeat music] This week on our Empire Club miniseries, we see the collision of three individuals whose close and eventually romantic relationship will change the course of history for India and the subcontinent forever. The wife of the last Viceroy of India will literally fall into the arms of the future first Prime Minister of India in Singapore in 1946. But the context of their meeting is just as shocking as the event itself. Here's a clip from episode three, where we discuss the Indian National Army and its controversial role in the Second World War. I mean, we should talk about the man who precedes him to this theater of action, uh, who is most definitely an agitator, but this time at a time of war. So let's have a flashback previously. [laughs] Previously in this story.
William Dalrymple· Host1:19
Wheel of wiggle.
Anita Anand· Host1:19
Yes. Subhas Chandra Bose. We should talk about why the British were so anxious about Nehru's visit, and it is because during the very heat of war, there was another Indian,