On this week's episode of History Reconsidered, Sumantra Maitra and Jarrett Stepman discuss the mutiny of 1857 in India that became one of the greatest crises the British Empire ever faced. They lay out the history of India as a region that had many precursor imperial powers like the Mughal Empire conquering and ruling long before the British Empire even existed.
Maitra and Stepman talk about how British colonialism in a sense created modern India from a region that was entirely divided and had no concept of a unified people. They also explain how British colonial rule appealed to many in India due to Britain's legal, cultural, and economic systems and how this history often gets left out in modern discussions about colonialism and "de-colonialism."
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