1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hi everybody, and 2 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 1: welcome to Who Did What Now? The history podcast that's 3 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: not your history class with me your host Katie Charlwood, 4 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: history harlot and reader of books. Most of you know 5 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,919 Speaker 1: the drill at this stage, but if you are new here, Hi, welcome, 6 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: and this is your disclaimer here one hooded what now? 7 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: I like to sprinkle my discussion with what some have 8 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 1: called a generous dash of colorful language, So consider yourself warned. 9 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: My particular vocabulary palette may occasionally contain shades that could 10 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: make a sailor blush. So if you are easily offended 11 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: by my linguistic extravagance, grab at your muffs or you know, 12 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: kindly exit stage left. This is your final warning. Now 13 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: let the Rebel paints bladder commence. Can you tell I 14 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: practiced that? Because that took about eight takes to do. 15 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: I kept messing it up. It was ridiculous because I 16 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: kept falling on the word particular, which is how I 17 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: say it all the time. But I kept going to 18 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: like that was good, that was a quality there. But again, 19 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: now that that's the way, I would like to dedicate 20 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: this episode to one of my fabulous Patreon supporters. Sonya. Now, 21 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: I know a lot of people like to do their 22 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: you know, their thanks and their support at the end. 23 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: Most people don't listen at the end, so I like 24 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: to put it up front. Although I do have some 25 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 1: things I want to talk about at the end of 26 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: the video, so if you are a longtime follower, they 27 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: may address you. So, yeah, that's happening. Why I had 28 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: to sing, I don't know? So news with me? How's 29 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: life going? I am still needy, been writing, so I 30 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: did get my two sample chapters sent off to my 31 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: publishing agent. So now it's in the wind. We'll see 32 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,679 Speaker 1: what happens from here. But I'm I'm very excited. Things 33 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: seem to be and so the ball is really rolling 34 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: with that. In my personal life, I saw my little 35 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: girl go to her dance performance, so like there's a 36 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: finale every year of the dance show. And it was 37 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: very interesting because one of the other woman I know, 38 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: her daughter is also in the show and her daughter's 39 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: a wee ballerina. Mine doesn't do ballet, but she does 40 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: other stuff, and so we're chatting away and she's like, 41 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,799 Speaker 1: did you bring tissues? Because you will cry? I was ah, 42 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: I'll be fine. She's just gonna dance. And there I am. There, 43 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: I am watching her and tears are streaming down my face. 44 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: Good thing it was too hot for me to put 45 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,839 Speaker 1: on any makeup, because seriously, I would have just looked 46 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: like a very, a very coked up raccoon. It just 47 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: would have been just danger. But I just I was 48 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: so overwhelmed with emotion. It was very It was very 49 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: interesting because, like I was watching her do this front 50 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: role she has to do, and it was the one 51 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: thing that she was struggling with, and she was talking 52 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: about quitting dancing. She's only seven and she was talking 53 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: about quitting because she couldn't do this front roll and 54 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,399 Speaker 1: it was really getting to her. So I've now invested 55 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: in a mat for her to do things, because she 56 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,399 Speaker 1: never did any dancing around me. She doesn't do stuff 57 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: like that. But now summer's here, I've got a mat 58 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: so she can do it outside and there's space and 59 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: she can practice. And I'm seriously considering putting both my 60 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: kids into like gymnastics, just for core strength. But we'll 61 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: see how that goes. But I know what you're thinking. 62 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: You're thinking, quit your jibber Drabber in fact me, in 63 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: fact you, I will. But first we've got to get 64 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: our source. On our source are the Anarchy, The Relentless 65 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: Rise of the East India Company by William Darlimpole, Empires, 66 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: Nations and Politics of ethnic Identity by Summit Guha, Trading Places, 67 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: The East India Company and Asia sixteen hundred to eighteen 68 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 1: thirty four by Anthony Farrington. Conflicting cooperation in Anglo Mingo 69 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: trade relations during the reign of urung Zeb by fart Hassan. 70 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: The Pirates Pact, The Zebra Alliances between history's motatorious buccaneers 71 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 1: in colonial America by Douglas Arburgess. The East India Company 72 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: and British Empire in the Far East by Marguerite ire Wilber. 73 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: A Treatise on the Principles, practice and History of Commerce 74 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: by John Ramsay McCullough. Early English Travelers in India A 75 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: study in the travel literture of Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, 76 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: with particular reference to India by ram Chandra Pisad. The 77 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: Imperial Gaziteir of India from nineteen o eight. The East 78 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: India Company a history by Brian Gardner. England's Quest of 79 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: Eastern Trade by Sir William Foster sixteen hundred. The British 80 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: East India Company by Paul Saduke Documenting the British is 81 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: India Company and their involvement in the East Indian Slave 82 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: Trade by Bonnie Pinkston. European slave Trading in the Indian 83 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: Ocean fifteen hundred eighteen fifty by Richard B. Allen. Lords 84 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 1: of the East, The East India Company and its Ships 85 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 1: by Jean Sutton. The Corporation That Changed the World by 86 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: Nick Robbins. Legislating Instability Adam Smith, Free Banking and the 87 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 1: Financial Crass, Legislating Instability, Adam Smith, Free Banking and the 88 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: Financial Crass, Legislating Instability, Adam Smith, Free Banking and the 89 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: financial Legislating Instability. Adam Smith, Free Banking and the Financial 90 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 1: Crisis of seventeen seventy two by Tyler Goodspeed. And of 91 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: course we have our favorites, history dot com, Smithsonian dot 92 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:58,679 Speaker 1: com and biography dot com iosiding comfortably good, then let's begin. 93 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: Sometimes you might think to yourself, you know, if you're me, 94 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: why talk about one singular person in history when I 95 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: can talk about an entire company, Especially when that company 96 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: has done so many things, and yet most of us 97 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: only really know all that in passing or as villains 98 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, which incidentally is 99 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: not too far from the truth, because how do I 100 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 1: put this? Basically, yes, but minus you know, magical cursed pirates, 101 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: just villainy, really lots of villainy, and we gloss over 102 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: it so much like we hide the fact that the 103 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: original colonization of Africa was by this corporation, by this 104 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: for profit business, which was supported by the British crown, 105 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 1: which then led to sort of the Britain like official 106 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: colonization of India. But this is it's fucking nefarious, is 107 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: what it is. And let's just let's just get into it, 108 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: shall we. So let's start off from the beginning. So 109 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: let's roll back to something you would have learned in 110 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: history class, and that would be Vasco da Gamma. So 111 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: in fourteen nine to eight he discovers a sea route 112 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,119 Speaker 1: to India. And the reason this Portuguese explorer was looking 113 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: for a sea rout was because Europeans did not want 114 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: to have to traverse through the dangerous lands occupied by 115 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: Arabs and Turks. And so you know, the sea rout 116 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: was definitely the way to go, you know, it was 117 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: the easiest option for them for trade. And so over 118 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: the next century they start building trade routes from Europe 119 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: to India to Indonesia, like they're really making their way 120 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: across the world. They're starting to circumvent, you know, and 121 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: of course everybody wants a piece of the pie and 122 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: something to season it with. And so in September fifteen 123 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: ninety nine, this small collection of merchants there's like eighty 124 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: in total, they petitioned Queen Elizabeth first to let them 125 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: trade over in the East Indies as it was known, 126 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: and by sixteen hundred she issues a wild charter giving 127 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: them a monopoly for what like fifteen years to trade 128 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: over in the East. So it's not a typical partnership 129 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: which was back in the day, like one family would 130 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,319 Speaker 1: have an alliance to another family and they would be trading. 131 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:47,719 Speaker 1: This started as a joint stock company which could then 132 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: issue shares in like an open market to other investors. 133 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: So it really is the beginning of of you know, corporations. 134 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: So yeah, by sixteen hundred it is the Company of 135 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: Merchants of London trading into the East Indies and then 136 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: it sort of gets an informal name of the Honorable 137 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: East India Company or even the John Company, and then 138 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: it changes its name later on again, but that's another 139 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: story for later on. So this Royal Charter is very 140 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: interesting because it gives this company, this civilian company, more 141 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: powers than it should have. The charter gives the company 142 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: the right to wage war where necessary. It also has 143 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: a provision that allows it to mint its own money, 144 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:52,079 Speaker 1: build forts and castles, raise armies, and acquire territory if 145 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: it was in the interests of Britain and the company, 146 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,199 Speaker 1: and effectively, as far as they're concerned, everything is in 147 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: the interests of Britain and the company. It doesn't actually 148 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 1: mention anything about holding territories. But I mean, it's all 149 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: about interpretation, isn't it. It's reading the small print. So 150 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: by the time it comes to you know, be born. 151 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: The East India Company has one hundred and twenty five 152 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: shareholders and a capital of like seventy thousand quid, which 153 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: is a massive, massive chunk of money, especially considering like 154 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: England at the time was it was not the most affluent. 155 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: A lot of this was because of Henry the Eighth 156 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: who had squandered just so much between you know, changing 157 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: the entire country's religion and going to war with the 158 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: King of France in some weird dick measuring contests. But 159 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: he just couldn't help. But anyway, back to the ec See, 160 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: like most companies at the time where family owned businesses, 161 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: or like one family was going into business with another family, 162 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: they were very sort of closed affairs. But this was 163 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:18,679 Speaker 1: a business, a company that was owned entirely by its shareholders, 164 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: all one hundred and twenty five of them. It had 165 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 1: a governor to manage it. I'm twenty four directors, so 166 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of people in this and normally 167 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: I wouldn't go into so many details about like shareholders 168 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:36,439 Speaker 1: and directors and things like that, but this is for context. 169 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: So this company exists to maximize the profits of its shareholders, 170 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: not unlike companies today. So that's why it exists, that's 171 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: why it's there. So its main goal is just to 172 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: make more money, more and more money. But in order 173 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: to do that, traders got a trade. So the merchants 174 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: in sixteen oh one, they get the company ships and 175 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 1: they set sale for the East Indies. They try to 176 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 1: get to Spice Island, but they're a wee bit late 177 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: on this. So when they get there, the Portuguese and 178 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: the Dutch are already established and they're like, na pal 179 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: off you pop. And so they decide, sure, okay, we're 180 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: going to go to India instead, but not straight away. 181 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: So the first thing they do is they set up 182 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 1: these outposts and they start trading sort of silver and 183 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: English wool for things like silk and tea and sugar 184 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: and opium because drugs very very popular, very easy to 185 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: make money on, you know. So of course, so they 186 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: realize they've got a lot of money and goods going 187 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: through these outposts, and as such they need to actually 188 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: protect their goods and their profits, and so they hire 189 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 1: mercenaries and the like to protect the goods from raw 190 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: and thieves and pirates and other such angry people like 191 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 1: I don't know people who's Spacio invaded and you really 192 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: shouldn't be there because of like that. But anyway, and 193 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: remember the company is still really lucky because it has 194 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: this fifteen year monopoly in British trade, so it only 195 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,439 Speaker 1: really has to worry about the Dutch. In the Portuguese. 196 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: Speaking of the Portuguese, she casually slips into conversation. When 197 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: the company's ship Hector, actually gets to India and sixteen 198 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: o eight it starts this war of control which lasts 199 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: for four years, resulting in the Portuguese having their asses 200 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: handed to them. And it is very clear that the 201 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: East India Company is not playing games. So at this 202 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: point this is just a bunch of traders who are 203 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,079 Speaker 1: fighting a global superpower because Portugal was, you know, pretty 204 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 1: big at the time. So I'm not that fussed. This 205 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: is fine, you can kind of go all right, you know, 206 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: it's the past. Fighting happens. So three years later, Sir 207 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: Thomas Rowe, who is representing King James the First because 208 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: Elizabeth has died, James has now taken over and god, 209 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 1: I hate the man so much. He's such a bastard. 210 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: Him in a shitty bible. So Thomas Rowe he meets 211 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: with the Mughal King Jahangear and he gains permission to 212 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: establish a factory in Surat, which to them was a 213 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: brilliant we go screw yourselves to the Portuguese and the Dutch. 214 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: So in return for allowing the company to establish a 215 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 1: factory in Surat, they promise to provide jahangear with the 216 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 1: best of the best, the choicest goods, the krem De 217 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 1: the krem he would have first pick whatever he desired. 218 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: But of the two parties, the East India Company definitely 219 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: got the better part of the deal. So of the 220 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: two parties involved, however, the East India Company definitely got 221 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: the better part of the deal. So Indian artisans, I 222 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: mean they're shit hot, like have you seen a sari? 223 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: Like ooh, the craftsmanship. But so the artisans and things 224 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: they created, they were in high demand, especially throughout Europe, 225 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: but all across the globe, but mainly Europe because the 226 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 1: skills and techniques they were seen as exotic and you know, 227 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: proper fucking quality. And then of course there was the 228 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: access to India's natural resources. The natural produce of India 229 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: is you know, you've got tea, You've got spices, and 230 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: silks and gold. There's just so much and the company 231 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: just wanted to get their grubby little hands on it. 232 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: And if it was in their hands, it wouldn't be 233 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: in the hands of the Dutch, who still had the 234 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: monopoly of the spice trade in the East Indies. And 235 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 1: so they are they're still fighting, but in sixteen twenty three, 236 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: the Dutch completely massacres the British traders and Amboina and Indonesia. 237 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: So after this, they're like, we're just gonna keep concentrating 238 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 1: on India because this is we don't need the murder. Thanks. 239 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: They must have been so mad as well being defeated 240 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: by the Dutch Hi had mityal stirvn Ha. Yeah, deadlands. 241 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: But you know what's absolutely wild is that throughout this 242 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: for this past twenty years at the East India Company 243 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: has been running, it has been run almost entirely out 244 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: of this fella's house with only was it sex employees 245 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: on staff. Listen, I'm not here to provide any support 246 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: to the East India Company, but like, how confident do 247 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: you have to be to be six people running an 248 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: organization across the globe when there isn't even a decent 249 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: intercontinental post service, Like there's no guarantee you're going to 250 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: know what's happening all the way over there. Like what 251 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: about one hundred years after you know, the company was established, 252 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: it finally moves into its permanent home office in Life, 253 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: London and it has like thirty five members of staff 254 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: at this point and by the late eighteen hundreds, the 255 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: permanent staff reaches one hundred and fifty nine. I think 256 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 1: let's take a moment to put this into perspective. So 257 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: the East India Company is this corporation being controlled by 258 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: no more than one hundred and fifty nine people. One 259 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine people at any one time at 260 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: most are going to be responsible for so much destruction, 261 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:40,159 Speaker 1: so much pain, so much death like that is absolutely bonkers. 262 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 1: But anyway, the East India Company decided that it needed 263 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: to set some permanent bases in India because Indonesia just 264 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: wasn't on the card since you know, the Dutch absolutely 265 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: handed their asses to them, and they basically do this 266 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: over twenty to thirty years sort of increments. So you've 267 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: got Madras, which is the first permanent base. It's settled 268 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: in sixteen thirty nine. Then a base is established in 269 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: Bombay in sixteen sixty eight, and then finally a base 270 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: is settled in Kolcutta in sixteen ninety. So yeah, these 271 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: three settlements are all set up and they're meant to 272 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: be these trading outposts and it's where they you know, 273 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: they can store their goods and everything. So it's all 274 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: settled there, and again they have their little crews and 275 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: armies and everything just to take care of it, just 276 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: to protect them, for no other reason. So between establishing 277 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 1: the outposts in Bombay and Calcutta, so between sixteen sixty 278 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: eight in sixteen ninety there was a there was a 279 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 1: way incident. And by way incident, I mean the company 280 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,360 Speaker 1: gets permissioned from King James the Second to sail nineteen 281 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 1: ships from London all the way to India to deal 282 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: with the Mules. So the Mugals at this point are 283 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:02,439 Speaker 1: this incredibly wealthy dynasty and so they are the ruling 284 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: elite in this area of India where the company really 285 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,439 Speaker 1: wants to get their roots down, and the Moggles they 286 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: are open to trade with the East India Company. Unfortunately, 287 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 1: there is a difference of opinion because the Mugules have 288 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: personal opinions regarding trading with other traders, you know, people 289 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: who are not the East India Company, having particular preferences 290 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 1: regarding taxation and of course you know, having authority over 291 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: their own lands. So the Mughal leader oring Zeb he 292 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 1: is basically in control of the Indian subcontinent, and the 293 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 1: English come to throw their way around and he says, 294 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: fuck this for a game of soldiers and takes on 295 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: the East India Company in a war that lasts four 296 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: years and ends with what has been referred to many 297 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 1: times as an embarrassing deffen eat for the EIC, with 298 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: soldiers and officers imprisoned, their fleet fucking scattered and mingle 299 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: soldiers so many Mugho soldiers completely outnumbering the EIC, right, 300 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: they just start filling up the bombay for it in 301 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: this just show just the show of strength. And after this, 302 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:31,880 Speaker 1: like whole fandango, you'd think they would have been like expelled, 303 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: you know, you'd make that assumption. But no, after this, 304 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: you know, oring Zeb is perfectly satisfied that he has 305 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: proven his point and he decides to let the East 306 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:52,360 Speaker 1: India Company stay like he allows them to just stay 307 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: in India, you know, because they're subdued, and he's convinced 308 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: that because he has managed to quell them, that they 309 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: will someday become allies. You thought British would, Okay, sure, 310 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:15,199 Speaker 1: Jan Sure. Unbeknownst to them, because of the lack of 311 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: honor to anybody not a white European, the East India 312 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 1: Company decided that being allowed to stay in the country 313 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: was basically permission to, you know, try and take over 314 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 1: the entire place. Yeah, and they are. They are twiddling 315 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 1: their thumbs, just waiting for the right moment. So when 316 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: org Zeb passes away the Mughal Empire, it just starts declining. 317 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: The last powerful Mughal leader is gone. And so this 318 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: is the perfect opportunity for the East India Company to 319 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: just stomp in in their boots. It takes them just 320 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: over a decade to acquire a farming from a Mughal 321 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:02,199 Speaker 1: king in Bengal. So they managed to bribe this dude. 322 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: He's not that powerful, but it does give them this 323 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: wee bit of authority. So this decree gives the company 324 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: rights to trade judy free, so without tax, in return 325 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: for a small fee to the Mughal court. So this 326 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: is a ridiculous deal because it makes it basically impossible 327 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: for other European powers to compete with the British in 328 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 1: this level of trade. So the Dutch, the Portuguese like, 329 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: they cannot do the same offer. You know, they're not 330 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 1: going to have this option. And that is a sweet 331 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: bloody deal for the EIC. Not only do they get 332 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 1: to screw over the competition. But it also makes you know, 333 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 1: the Bengali rulers really really mad because this decree means 334 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: that they lose a bunch of their revenue share, so 335 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: they're losing the money they would have got from taxation. 336 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 1: So and as far as the Europeans are concerned, if 337 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: it's written on paper, if it is signed or stamped, 338 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,959 Speaker 1: it is good to go and that gives them authority. 339 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: So even though at this point in the Mughal leader 340 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: he didn't really have much power or authority in the province, 341 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: because they had this signed piece of paper, the EIC 342 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: believed that they had this authority. And so the Bengali 343 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,159 Speaker 1: leaders are seriously pissed off at this dude in Delhi, 344 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 1: who doesn't have the power, is allowing this to happen. 345 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: He's not only giving this British company a monopoly on trade, 346 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 1: but it also leads to this infiltration of British forces 347 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: in Bengal and this seriously pisses people off and unsurprisingly 348 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 1: skirmishes Ensiu. You see, without Orgzeb things started to crumble 349 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: because when he was alive, he was this dominant force, 350 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: he was this central authority to the Indian subcontinent. And 351 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 1: then when he passed away India, it fragments, right, so 352 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: it starts breaking up, and these rulers of the Bengali 353 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 1: they start rolling independently and then they start clashing with 354 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: each other. They're having battles, they're fighting, and then this 355 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: this gives the British a chance. This gives the East 356 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: India Company. These cracks are great for him to just 357 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 1: stick their fingers in and pull apart. So the British 358 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: military power just gains and gains, and while everything is 359 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 1: crumbling around them. The Persian leader, Nadir Shah, he plunders Deli, 360 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: he empties all the treasure. He has defeated the Mughal 361 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 1: emperor right at this point, and he heads back to 362 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: Persia over the Kaiba Pass with just so much shit. 363 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:54,719 Speaker 1: He has camels and elephants, a peacock thrown, I might 364 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: add a peacock thrown. That's just fabulous. And so he's 365 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 1: taken that. He's also taken the dark and it's big sister, 366 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: the koh Nur, which I'm sure you'll recognize from being 367 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: in the news and from being one of the most 368 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 1: famous pillaged gems in the history of the world. Nadirshah 369 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: had just pilled for it. He'd taken all the treasure, 370 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: he was gone, thus leaving the Mughal emperor in a 371 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: very vulnerable position because it didn't have the funds anymore. 372 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,919 Speaker 1: So all of these leaders that were sort of skirmishing 373 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: with the Eic, they were now forced to make alliances 374 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: with them and to basically well some of alliances and 375 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: others were forced to accept British rule. But Britain wasn't 376 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: the only one involved. See, the French had also decided 377 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: they wanted to get their pause onto India as well. 378 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,199 Speaker 1: And the one thing that Europeans really had over the 379 00:25:55,240 --> 00:26:00,200 Speaker 1: Indians at the time was the advancement of weaponry. Em 380 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 1: In the Battle of Madras, the French they had these 381 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 1: rapid firing weapons which caused the much larger army they 382 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: were fighting to retreat basically without actually fighting, because they 383 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: were like, no, I'm not dealing with that. And by 384 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,919 Speaker 1: the mid seventeen hundreds, the weaponry of the Europeans was 385 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,159 Speaker 1: far superior to that that was in India. Now this 386 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,919 Speaker 1: may shock you, gentle listener, but the French and the 387 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: British weren't exactly best days. In fact, some might even 388 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: call it a rivalry considering they were two rival companies 389 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: vying for the same spot. So the French CAMPAIGNE and 390 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 1: the EIC, they were basically feuding with each other will 391 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: trying to defeat the Muggles. So by the time the 392 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: seventeen fifties roll around, the Mughal Empire is in these 393 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: fractured states. You've got leader fighting with region, fighting with region, 394 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: and they're lacking funding and with all of these other 395 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: powers starting to wild their way. In the majority of 396 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: these rulers, they realize they have to either ally with 397 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 1: the British or will They're forced to ally with the 398 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,200 Speaker 1: British like they have to accept British authority one way 399 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:18,439 Speaker 1: or another. And the Nawab they become this independent region 400 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: from Delhi or out with Delhi, and they're basically like 401 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,439 Speaker 1: a splinter group at this point. And they are pissed 402 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 1: off that the EIC have built Fort William in Kolcutta 403 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:38,880 Speaker 1: without you know, the Nawab of Bengal's permission, Nawab Suraj. 404 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: So what happens then is that Saraj attacks the British 405 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: fort with his army of thirty thousand men. So there's 406 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: like a thousand settlers like in this fort, it's it's 407 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,719 Speaker 1: meant to be like a township kind of idea. It's 408 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: like there's a thousand settlers and like they get away, 409 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 1: they escape along with the military commanders. And while they scarpled, 410 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: it leaves about one hundred men who are unsurprisingly easily 411 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: overtaken by this you know army of thirty thousand men. 412 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: So the prisoners they're rounded up and they're put into 413 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: this basement. Yeah, and after they're put in the basement, 414 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,439 Speaker 1: so there's you know, torture and other such horrors and 415 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:32,120 Speaker 1: they are left with I think two dozen men by 416 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,360 Speaker 1: the end of it. If that, and the survivors are 417 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: telling a horrific, horrific story. And this music trickles back 418 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: to Britain and people are pissed, so they want they 419 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 1: want retaliation. They want them to to retake the fort. 420 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: So because losing Calcutta it is a massive, massive, like 421 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: money drain for the company. So the province of Bengal 422 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: is like the most advanced, you know for textiles, and 423 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: the Indian textiles had just invaded, had flooded British society 424 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: like they were such an amazing thing, like Calico tafata, 425 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: like these are all just desired. And on top of that, 426 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: like the economic production of the era, Like in seventeen 427 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: fifty it was happening in Bengal, India and England was 428 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: only making like two percent, so it's it's there. So yeah, 429 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: the company's losing money and it is well pissed off. 430 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: Enter sociopath and absolute fucking knobhead Robert Clive. So Clive, 431 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: he leads these trips from Madras and they come in 432 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: and they overtake Fort William and a few my later, 433 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,920 Speaker 1: the Bengal Nawab they were turn and that's like seventeen 434 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: fifty seven at this point, so they were turn and 435 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: this leads to the Battle of Plus A because who 436 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: does the Nawab have with them this time the French 437 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: of course. So, being a backhanded piece of shit, arsehole Clive, 438 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 1: he you know, he does the underhand thing because rules 439 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: of engagement are only relevant when dealing with the white people. No, 440 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 1: that was not a mistake. And so the treacherous lecturius 441 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: arsehole Clive, he makes this super secret deal with Mir Jafar, 442 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: who is Nawab Saraj's like right hand man. He is 443 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: the person to go to. So he makes this deal 444 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 1: with him that if he, you know, stabby Stabby, gets 445 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: rid of Saraj in the battle, he will make him 446 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 1: the new Nawab. Right, This bullshit battle ensues and Suraj 447 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: his spiy senses are tinkling. He can send some things up, 448 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: so he just gets the hell at a dodge. He's like, nope, 449 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: arios away he goes, and so Ja'afar decides, sure, let's 450 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: just sell out India to the British and informs them 451 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: of where Saraj is. They discover him, he is killed, 452 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: and Ja'afar gets the title. He's so desired. But it 453 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: wasn't all sunshine and lollipops, because the one thing you 454 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: can always trust a shitbag to do is to do 455 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: shitty things. So the first thing Robert Clive does is 456 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: he absolutely pilfers the treasury. Right, so he takes all 457 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: of the goods from the Nawab, leaving Jafar with sweet 458 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: fuck all, which seems fair in fairness, but god, they're 459 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 1: all oursehols and the company is just looting, which incidentally 460 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: is a word from Hindustani, which is how it's like 461 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: a bridge language. It's how do I say this without 462 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: making it sound weird. It is an Indo Aryan language. 463 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: It's a ploistic language. It's like a mishmash of like 464 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: Hindi and Urdu. And it was mainly in the North 465 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 1: India sort of well before the partition happened, sort of 466 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 1: that area, and it was generally used with like mercenaries 467 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 1: and you know, people like the East India Company and 468 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: other such groups. So people from armies would also use it, 469 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: so it was just kind of I think a little 470 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 1: bit easier for them to understand. I assume. I've had 471 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: some people argue that it's not a language, that it's 472 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: like more slang. But here's the thing, what we assume 473 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: to be slang isn't always slang. Scotts is an indigenous 474 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: language to Scotland, which is a combination of languages high 475 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: Bare and No English, Aave, so on and so forth. 476 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,120 Speaker 1: I don't think you can just discredit something just because 477 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: you don't personally like it anyway, that's not the point. 478 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: That's me just rambling about languages for a minute. So like, yeah, 479 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 1: things are not going great for India at this point, 480 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 1: and and you see the thing is what is also 481 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 1: going on at this time is the seven years war, 482 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 1: and it's like all of the European superpowers are in it, 483 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 1: and it's running from like seventeen fifty six to seventeen 484 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: sixty three. So that's happening about this too. And what's funny, 485 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 1: not funny ha, but like funny weird is that by 486 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 1: the end of the Seven Years War, the East India 487 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:52,479 Speaker 1: Company has a fucking makeover because it decides it's not 488 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 1: really trader anymore. It's not trading, they're rulers. The AIC 489 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: is losing it, you know, can tell privileges and stuff 490 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: and gaining just control and power. And in seventeen sixty five, 491 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,920 Speaker 1: under the slimy hands aclive, the East India Company wins 492 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 1: the Battle of Buxar and this which basically crushes the 493 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:22,319 Speaker 1: Mughal Empire. So the exiled emperor shat Alam he is 494 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:27,279 Speaker 1: forced to sign this decree and it makes the East 495 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: India Company the Dwan of Bengal and so Shatlam becomes 496 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 1: a pensioner of the company and the Nawab of Awa 497 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 1: he becomes their ally. So this decree also authorizes the 498 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:48,200 Speaker 1: company to collect Bengali revenue. The EIC is now able 499 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 1: to collect the tax from ten million bengalleys like this. 500 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,799 Speaker 1: This is unprecedented. And it is also because of these 501 00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 1: two battles, the Battle of plus A and the Battle 502 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 1: of Buks And this also gives them this massive, massive 503 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,759 Speaker 1: stretch of territory. So you've got uh go to mil 504 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 1: Nadu Orrisa, West Bengal, Bhr Maharashta, Gujarat Pradesh. And I 505 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,479 Speaker 1: am sorry if I mispronounced those names. I did try 506 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,760 Speaker 1: and practice, but I feel like I've sucked it up somehow. 507 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:29,320 Speaker 1: So on top of this, because again they're fucking pissed 508 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 1: off at the French, they expel all of the Frenchmen 509 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,759 Speaker 1: from Bengal just like no French, your French, get the 510 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,759 Speaker 1: fuck out of Bengal. So and like over the next 511 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: few years, is responsible for like half of all of 512 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:52,279 Speaker 1: the EIC's prophets. But Clive O, the greedy little goober mouch, 513 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,760 Speaker 1: he wants more. You see Bengal's coffers. They're being drained 514 00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 1: out of Bengal and into Britain. So not only is 515 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,359 Speaker 1: like this chunk of look from Bengal going directly into 516 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:09,080 Speaker 1: Clive's back pocket two hundred and thirty four thousand to 517 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 1: be exact, which is twenty three million pounds in today's money, 518 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,399 Speaker 1: I shit you not. And he also gets two point 519 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: five million from the defeated rollers of Bengal and that 520 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 1: goes into the EIC treasury, which is two hundred and 521 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:32,719 Speaker 1: fifty million pounds in today's money. Because corporate gradio, like 522 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:40,360 Speaker 1: the entire contents of the Bengal treasury. We're just taken out, 523 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:44,959 Speaker 1: put into boats and just sent down the Ganges over 524 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,719 Speaker 1: to Fort William like nice and easy. Oh An a 525 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,359 Speaker 1: big agent to it. But Robert Clive is thirty three 526 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,520 Speaker 1: years old at this point, thirty three, and he has 527 00:36:54,560 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 1: all of this ridiculous money because he's a colonizing dick. Well, 528 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,960 Speaker 1: because I forgot to mention as well. He also gets 529 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:07,319 Speaker 1: an annual salary of thirty thousand pounds per year and 530 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:14,120 Speaker 1: he claims jagir which is like tax revenue for life. 531 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,600 Speaker 1: So he is making more money in more money and 532 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,880 Speaker 1: more money. And so the East India Company, it is 533 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:26,400 Speaker 1: firmly based in North East India, but obviously wants more 534 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,680 Speaker 1: because of course it does, and it keeps expanding its 535 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,680 Speaker 1: territory by doing what it does best, causing conflict. It 536 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:39,480 Speaker 1: basically sets nawabs and princes against each other. So it's 537 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:45,080 Speaker 1: causing more fractures like throughout these leadership in India and 538 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,120 Speaker 1: like in Bengal. So the East India Company they are 539 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,320 Speaker 1: running the show, but they've got like these puppet leaders, 540 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,120 Speaker 1: like the Shattalam, they've got them in place, and so 541 00:37:54,160 --> 00:38:00,279 Speaker 1: they start replicating this all over and so they use 542 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:04,000 Speaker 1: the name and authority of the Mughal Empire, which is 543 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 1: not really a thing at this point anymore, and they're 544 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:13,719 Speaker 1: using it as as a political like disguise. Is that 545 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,680 Speaker 1: is that a thing they're like hiding behind it. It's 546 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,600 Speaker 1: a front. It's a front. That's the fucking word I'm 547 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,120 Speaker 1: looking for. It's a front. The Mughal Empire is like 548 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:26,640 Speaker 1: a front. And they use this in order to collect 549 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 1: taxes and they use like local rulers to do that. 550 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,920 Speaker 1: And so it's yeah, I'm not saying it's like a 551 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:37,600 Speaker 1: pyramid scheme, but like kind of I guess. And for 552 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:41,120 Speaker 1: a good chunk of time, like British silver had been 553 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: used for trade, it was, but considering everything that aice 554 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,520 Speaker 1: had their hands on, they didn't need to do that anymore, 555 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,080 Speaker 1: you know, with all of the pilfering and pillaging and 556 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:58,160 Speaker 1: corruption and treachery and proptying, you know. But yeah, I 557 00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:04,320 Speaker 1: like in Bengal, they dismissed all of the revenue officials 558 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,680 Speaker 1: in India's major trading cities and replaced them with a 559 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,000 Speaker 1: bunch of English fellas, which of course was just super 560 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:16,000 Speaker 1: convenient for the East India Company. Unfortunately, the same could 561 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,280 Speaker 1: not be said for the Bengalleys. It was an absolute 562 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:24,160 Speaker 1: catastrophe with the East India Company being in control and 563 00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:29,600 Speaker 1: because of the Eics savagery, the engineer the worst famine 564 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:33,160 Speaker 1: India had ever seen. Now, famine wasn't exactly unheard of 565 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:37,600 Speaker 1: in India before, you know, the invasion of European powers, 566 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,239 Speaker 1: but leaders of the time, the indigenous leaders, that is, 567 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,080 Speaker 1: they actually gave a shit about their people, at least 568 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,200 Speaker 1: in a monetary sense, you know. But the way colonialism 569 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:54,359 Speaker 1: works is a colonial power can only really justify invading 570 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:59,800 Speaker 1: another area, setting up its own government, and claiming everything 571 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:04,080 Speaker 1: of yourself. The only way you can do that is 572 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 1: if the very base of your enterprise is systemic racism, 573 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,640 Speaker 1: because you really have to convince yourselves that you are 574 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,320 Speaker 1: more important than everybody else, than everybody else is lesser 575 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,840 Speaker 1: than you. The people who aren't like you, are lesser 576 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:24,280 Speaker 1: than you. So yeah, the East India Company, the amount 577 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,000 Speaker 1: of famines that happened under the road is fucking ridiculous, 578 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,440 Speaker 1: and they're all engineered by their own greened They've forced 579 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,640 Speaker 1: farmers to grow high value crops like indigo and poppy. 580 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,920 Speaker 1: But this isn't exactly because fabric dye and opium are 581 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,640 Speaker 1: exactly what you need to stave away the hunger pangs. 582 00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,799 Speaker 1: And instead of putting any policies in place to you know, 583 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,080 Speaker 1: maybe curve the whole starving a nation to death thing, 584 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:55,400 Speaker 1: you know, they actually slashed wages and hoarded food grains 585 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:59,440 Speaker 1: and then price scouted them. And not only that, oh 586 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,319 Speaker 1: my god, it gets it's worse. Not only were they 587 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:06,280 Speaker 1: not allowing them to grow fucking food, but they also 588 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:12,879 Speaker 1: forced peasant farmers to give them half half of their 589 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:18,879 Speaker 1: cash harvest. And then what happened, surprisingly during a fucking famine, 590 00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,759 Speaker 1: a bunch of people die. So these peasants they die, 591 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,439 Speaker 1: and what does the East India Company do. They raise 592 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:29,560 Speaker 1: the taxes some more because they have to, you know, 593 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,359 Speaker 1: make up for the loss of the taxation that they 594 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,800 Speaker 1: lost because dead people can't pay taxes. What a fucking surprise. 595 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,840 Speaker 1: Maybe if you want to get money from these people, 596 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,680 Speaker 1: you might want to actually keep them alive a wee 597 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:50,920 Speaker 1: bit longer. Anyway, by the end, ten million people died, 598 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:56,160 Speaker 1: but their profits were at a record high, So of 599 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,960 Speaker 1: course they didn't give a flying fuck, and they were 600 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:03,480 Speaker 1: really really proud of it, because company officials boasted about it. 601 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,080 Speaker 1: But of course never fucking satisfied because you know what 602 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:12,680 Speaker 1: they did. They sent their armies into Indian towns, villages, 603 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:16,840 Speaker 1: cities to ransack them and to torture the people there 604 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:24,359 Speaker 1: to find their expensive goods. Also, in addition, furthermore, I 605 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,799 Speaker 1: know you're going to be absolutely flabbergasted with this new 606 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,400 Speaker 1: piece of information I'm about to provide you, but the 607 00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,560 Speaker 1: East India Company was also involved in the slave trade. 608 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,560 Speaker 1: I know you're shocked. They have been just a pillar 609 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,960 Speaker 1: of justice up until now, and they had been trading 610 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,200 Speaker 1: people for the majority of the seventeen hundreds. By the 611 00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:49,840 Speaker 1: seventeen thirties, it had a large scale transportation of enslaved 612 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,239 Speaker 1: people and this continued all the way up to the 613 00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,279 Speaker 1: seventeen seventies. So not only did it engage in the 614 00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,040 Speaker 1: slave trade, it engaged others in the slave trade to 615 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:02,920 Speaker 1: maximize profits, so it would send some enslaved people to 616 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:09,200 Speaker 1: its outposts and settlements in India to basically well be slaves. 617 00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,560 Speaker 1: And not only did the company have actual slaves, it 618 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:17,640 Speaker 1: also brought in indentured servants and horrific working conditions for 619 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:22,920 Speaker 1: Indian artisans as well, so weaivers and other such people 620 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,600 Speaker 1: in the you know, the textile industry. The company forced 621 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:31,759 Speaker 1: them to accept fucking pittance for wages, and so this 622 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:38,040 Speaker 1: industry just declines. So the East India Company over over 623 00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:43,560 Speaker 1: the period of its existence, de industrializes Bengal and like 624 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,720 Speaker 1: even as a company, it can't control itself properly because 625 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:51,560 Speaker 1: there was so much fucking corruption that there was these 626 00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:56,440 Speaker 1: shortfalls and expected revenues, and the East India Company is 627 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,240 Speaker 1: left with debts of one and a half million pounds 628 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,920 Speaker 1: and it owes like a million quid and unpaid tax 629 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:09,160 Speaker 1: like to Britain to the crown. And this knowledge becomes public, 630 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:14,400 Speaker 1: resulting in like thirty banks collapsing all over Europe and 631 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:19,319 Speaker 1: trade just stops. This does sound vaguely familiar, doesn't it. 632 00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,600 Speaker 1: So this is the very first I think, And so 633 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,200 Speaker 1: in seventeen seventy two they need a bailout and they 634 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,200 Speaker 1: go to the Bank of England because there's an investigation, 635 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,600 Speaker 1: you see, and they realized there's so much fucking corruption 636 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,719 Speaker 1: and all of these, you know, people who had worked 637 00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,160 Speaker 1: for the East India Company just seemed to be getting 638 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:39,879 Speaker 1: loads of money and seemed to be doing really well 639 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,919 Speaker 1: for themselves, and people were getting really fucking suspicious and 640 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,480 Speaker 1: they started to learn that these people were living in India, 641 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:52,640 Speaker 1: living the high life and they were receiving like jukiers. 642 00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:57,800 Speaker 1: And so they get a massive bailout and people like Clive, 643 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,320 Speaker 1: Robert Clive, who has gained seat in the House of Lords, 644 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,440 Speaker 1: he has been knighted and he is sitting on a 645 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:08,880 Speaker 1: pretty fortune. He's also battling a an opium addiction. Okay, 646 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,239 Speaker 1: trigger warning, I'm gonna mention suicides. You're gonna want to 647 00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:17,320 Speaker 1: skip forward about twenty seconds from now. So Robert Clive 648 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,560 Speaker 1: in seventeen seventy four takes his own life by slicing 649 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:24,360 Speaker 1: his jugular with a blunt paper knife. He left no 650 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,279 Speaker 1: note and when he passed, he was buried in an 651 00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,799 Speaker 1: unmarked grave. Okay, now that we've got that over with. 652 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,240 Speaker 1: So yes, it was at this point in seventeen seventy 653 00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,799 Speaker 1: two or seventy seventy three, that it became very apparent 654 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:42,080 Speaker 1: that you know, the East India Company had gone rogue 655 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:47,239 Speaker 1: and that they needed, you know, some some regulation, some supervision. 656 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,160 Speaker 1: Like the East India Company was supposed to have been 657 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:54,160 Speaker 1: paying like forty six million pounds in today's money, like 658 00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,200 Speaker 1: to the government in order to like keep the monopoly 659 00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:03,800 Speaker 1: on on your trade in India. But then it hadn't 660 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,920 Speaker 1: been paying it since seventeen sixty eight because it had 661 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,080 Speaker 1: been too busy just reaping the funds for himself, because 662 00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,680 Speaker 1: it had the money, because it had been stealing it. 663 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,040 Speaker 1: So the Regulating Act of seventeen seventy three comes in, 664 00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:23,279 Speaker 1: and this moves towards government control because it has a 665 00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,800 Speaker 1: foothold in India and the government wants control of India, 666 00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,000 Speaker 1: so it doesn't want to fuck everything up just yet. 667 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:35,120 Speaker 1: So the Regulating Act it's supposed to prohibit the company 668 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:43,960 Speaker 1: from receiving you know, gifts, rewards and bribes and sure, okay. 669 00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:49,680 Speaker 1: And it basically sets the foundation for like centralized administration 670 00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:55,640 Speaker 1: in India because it amalgamates like the Madras, Mumbai and 671 00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,400 Speaker 1: Bengal sort of governments so the Governor of Bengal becomes 672 00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:03,160 Speaker 1: the Governor General of India with an executive council of 673 00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:07,160 Speaker 1: it's like four people, and so Warren Hastings becomes the 674 00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:11,880 Speaker 1: first Governor General and it establishes in Fort Williams in Kokura. 675 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,360 Speaker 1: There's like a Supreme court and it has the British 676 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:20,080 Speaker 1: legal system and the regulations. It just gets worse because 677 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,400 Speaker 1: it just continues to fuck up the Bengali textile industry 678 00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:28,120 Speaker 1: because now there's an eighty percent tax on important Indian cotton, 679 00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:32,480 Speaker 1: which is to protect the British textile industry, and so 680 00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:39,520 Speaker 1: Bengali textile it's going less out. And then the main 681 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:46,520 Speaker 1: export is opium, which is being sent to China, because 682 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,839 Speaker 1: of course it is. It's taking opium to China, it's 683 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:56,799 Speaker 1: taking tea to America. It's just it's just a smuggler's 684 00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,759 Speaker 1: board of bullshit. I'm like, here's the thing. The East 685 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:04,120 Speaker 1: India Company at this point, it wasn't it wasn't ruled 686 00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,360 Speaker 1: by the crown. It was only kind of connected to 687 00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,919 Speaker 1: the Crown, so it could engage in all this shit 688 00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:15,319 Speaker 1: without sort of retaliation happening. So it could get away 689 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,760 Speaker 1: with more things without fucking things up before Britain because 690 00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,400 Speaker 1: it wasn't you know, Britain that was doing it, it 691 00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,680 Speaker 1: was the East India Company. And so the East India 692 00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:28,839 Speaker 1: Company just keeps fucking growing. So it gets to the 693 00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:33,480 Speaker 1: point that by eighteen oh three, when it captures Delhi, 694 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,120 Speaker 1: that it has an army of two hundred and sixty 695 00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:43,000 Speaker 1: thousand men. Two hundred and sixty thousand, like that was 696 00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:46,680 Speaker 1: double the British army at the time, and the United 697 00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,680 Speaker 1: States army around about this time, for context, was twelve 698 00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:54,640 Speaker 1: thousand men. And even if you add in like the 699 00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:59,040 Speaker 1: Marines and like the Navy, it's like another six thousand. 700 00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:05,120 Speaker 1: So yeah, like, the East India Company's private army was 701 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:10,880 Speaker 1: fucking huge. And through all of this you've got the 702 00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:14,759 Speaker 1: Crown technically being separate from the East India Company. And 703 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:20,360 Speaker 1: so it's in Britain's best interest to protect the company 704 00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:25,440 Speaker 1: because it's still able to do what Britain wants and 705 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:30,680 Speaker 1: to get that foothold. Oh it's just absolute bollocks, isn't it. 706 00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,080 Speaker 1: And yeah, all from a staff of less than one 707 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:39,440 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty like bollocks. So, yeah, the East India 708 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,319 Speaker 1: Company has a fucking army and it also has this 709 00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:47,239 Speaker 1: massive network, this administrative network throughout the country. And even 710 00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,279 Speaker 1: though it's not a full conquest of the country, this 711 00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:59,120 Speaker 1: is colonialism by corporation, Like it's not even by a country. 712 00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:04,520 Speaker 1: This is what absolute bullshit is this colonialism by corporation, 713 00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:08,480 Speaker 1: Like that's that's what's fucking astounding to me. It's like, 714 00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:12,440 Speaker 1: this is just like could you imagine Ikea just showing 715 00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:14,400 Speaker 1: up and kicking the door in and being like, we 716 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,120 Speaker 1: own this shit now, and now we own your neighbor's house, 717 00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,160 Speaker 1: and now you have to pay me taxes, Like what 718 00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:25,520 Speaker 1: it's it's I mean, technically, Amazon, I think owns my soul. 719 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:29,360 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's in the terms of conditions, but like, 720 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:35,600 Speaker 1: could you imagine It's absolutely ridiculous. But yeah, I'm going 721 00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,799 Speaker 1: off and I ran back to the thing. So from 722 00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,680 Speaker 1: around eighteen oh three, Napoleon he's kicking about and he 723 00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,400 Speaker 1: is fucking things up because he realizes he can't fight 724 00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,759 Speaker 1: and you know war, he decides to hit them where 725 00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,040 Speaker 1: it hurts in the money. So because he loved warring 726 00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:57,080 Speaker 1: so much and realizing he couldn't beat Britain in that way, 727 00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:01,480 Speaker 1: he imposes this economic blockade. Yes, like in Star Wars, 728 00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:06,080 Speaker 1: and and so trading in Europe is just fucked up 729 00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,240 Speaker 1: for Britain. And so they're trying to get into Asia, 730 00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,440 Speaker 1: and because they want to get into Asia, they need 731 00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:15,560 Speaker 1: to dissolve this whole monopoly that the East India Company has. 732 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,640 Speaker 1: And so between this and Adam Smith's whole like free 733 00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:22,840 Speaker 1: trade scenario, people are kind of more into the concept 734 00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:28,640 Speaker 1: of dissolving the company or the company's monopoly and to 735 00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:33,440 Speaker 1: improve the growth of British industry and trade. And though 736 00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,360 Speaker 1: it does take a full decade to get into place, 737 00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:41,600 Speaker 1: the Charter Act, it basically strips the East India Company 738 00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:46,279 Speaker 1: of this or the monopoly of the Indian trade and 739 00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,200 Speaker 1: so other merchants they come in and they're allowed to 740 00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:53,360 Speaker 1: trade in India, but there's this like really strict license system, 741 00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,640 Speaker 1: and then by eighteen thirty three it also loses the 742 00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:02,320 Speaker 1: monopoly in China. Now I didn't cover China so much 743 00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,120 Speaker 1: in this episode. I might do it another time, but 744 00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:07,960 Speaker 1: this would be like a two to three hour episode 745 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:09,920 Speaker 1: and I just can't and I don't think any of 746 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,960 Speaker 1: us have time for that right now. So it basically 747 00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:20,279 Speaker 1: becomes this administrative body for British territories in India, and 748 00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:25,080 Speaker 1: the Act also allowed British people to settle in India. 749 00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,959 Speaker 1: And so you've got Brits coming in and you've got 750 00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:35,320 Speaker 1: fucking Christian missionaries and Indians are like, what the actual 751 00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:39,560 Speaker 1: fuck is this nonsense? Because like it's bad enough you've 752 00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:44,800 Speaker 1: littered our treasures and our jewels and our you know, money, 753 00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:48,600 Speaker 1: but now you're going to take our culture from us? 754 00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:55,520 Speaker 1: Like what absolute tom fuckery is this? Like no, no, 755 00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:02,319 Speaker 1: So like religion in like Indian societ, Like they're pissed off. 756 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,759 Speaker 1: I mean you've got like they managed to piss off 757 00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:09,600 Speaker 1: simultaneously Hindus Muslims and Seeks seeks. How do you piss 758 00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,080 Speaker 1: off a Sikh? So not only do they decide to 759 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,279 Speaker 1: like tear apart, you know, religion and culture, they also 760 00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:20,719 Speaker 1: tried to enforce the English education system. So around about 761 00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:24,640 Speaker 1: this time as well, the Victorians they kind of look 762 00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:26,960 Speaker 1: at everything that happened in India and they're starting to 763 00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:30,800 Speaker 1: feel a little bit funny about it. Could you remember 764 00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:34,120 Speaker 1: they saw themselves as the intellectual descendants of like the Romans, 765 00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:38,760 Speaker 1: and they saw themselves as being cultured and respectable and civilized. 766 00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:43,319 Speaker 1: And so by bringing in these changes by trying to 767 00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:47,839 Speaker 1: anglicize India. They felt like, we're helping look at us, 768 00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,759 Speaker 1: We're bringing this, this and this, because they really did 769 00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:54,960 Speaker 1: see themselves as superior and they felt that by doing this, 770 00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:59,720 Speaker 1: by this whole colonization situation, they were improving the lives 771 00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:02,240 Speaker 1: as if you hadn't fucked them up in the first place. 772 00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:06,480 Speaker 1: But like whatever, So although many Indians were rightfully suspicious 773 00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:10,400 Speaker 1: of the fucking missionaries, they would use you know, techniques 774 00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:14,200 Speaker 1: and gimmicks and other bullshit to convert people, and it 775 00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:20,560 Speaker 1: really was about anglicizing India. And then so like the 776 00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:23,640 Speaker 1: churches will be fine and the bishops will be fine. 777 00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:28,279 Speaker 1: But they started taxing lands belonging to like mosques and temples, 778 00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:33,040 Speaker 1: as if that isn't just playing bigotry, Like it's obvious. 779 00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:38,279 Speaker 1: But most of the country at this point is under 780 00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:43,719 Speaker 1: the control of the East India Company, and at this 781 00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:48,080 Speaker 1: point they are desperate to seize you know, the last 782 00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:52,200 Speaker 1: few remaining areas which aren't under their control, and so 783 00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:56,480 Speaker 1: they start putting in these really awful policies like the 784 00:54:56,520 --> 00:55:00,759 Speaker 1: doctrine of lapse, and then and they just start annexing 785 00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:05,120 Speaker 1: these independent states. So I'm gonna apologize for my shitty 786 00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:12,040 Speaker 1: pronunciation again, I really am trying. Udauper Satara Nagpur, Simbulper, Simbalper, 787 00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:16,880 Speaker 1: Joutper and jan Zy jan Zy. That's the one with 788 00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:21,480 Speaker 1: laxed me by. She was the she was awesome. She's 789 00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,759 Speaker 1: in one of my kid's books actually, And this just 790 00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:28,560 Speaker 1: fucks up everything. And I think like her son wasn't 791 00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,680 Speaker 1: permitted to sit on the throne and stuff like that, 792 00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:34,479 Speaker 1: so it just fucks up like succession and everything else. 793 00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:37,759 Speaker 1: So on top of this, you've also got people that 794 00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:42,000 Speaker 1: are losing their jobs and there's heavy like taxation and 795 00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:49,799 Speaker 1: everything is just it's just deteriorating the area. And with 796 00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,520 Speaker 1: this going on, Oh and what did I forget? I 797 00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:58,239 Speaker 1: did forget the very very obvious and aggressive racism of 798 00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:03,960 Speaker 1: Indian soldiers, the who joined the company and Indian soldiers, 799 00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,359 Speaker 1: they're paid less, they're trude like shit, and they were 800 00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:11,000 Speaker 1: always forced to serve far away and they would be 801 00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:15,280 Speaker 1: sent even like out with Indian borders. The whole purpose 802 00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,280 Speaker 1: was they were going to be removed from an area. 803 00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:22,360 Speaker 1: They know. They wanted to alienate them, they wanted to 804 00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,960 Speaker 1: make it uncomfortable for them. And I'm fairly certain. This 805 00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:31,279 Speaker 1: is where the Butcher of Hydrabad comes from, Like he 806 00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,480 Speaker 1: had turned guns on a bunch of his own men 807 00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:40,120 Speaker 1: because he was a fucking cuntfyce bastard. But anyway, all 808 00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:45,200 Speaker 1: this leads to just unrest in India and people being 809 00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:51,320 Speaker 1: absolutely done with this colonial exploitation. So by eighteen fifty 810 00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:55,440 Speaker 1: seven there's the first uprising and it always started with 811 00:56:55,480 --> 00:57:01,680 Speaker 1: a rumor, and the rumor was designed to upset Indian soldiers. 812 00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:05,239 Speaker 1: So whether it was true or it wasn't true, it 813 00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:08,239 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. The whole purpose of it was to just 814 00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:15,000 Speaker 1: completely destroy these people. So these cartridges are given to 815 00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:18,360 Speaker 1: soldiers for the rifles, right, and the carters have to 816 00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:24,600 Speaker 1: be greased, so before you load the rifle, you have 817 00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:28,160 Speaker 1: to bite the cover of the cartridges. And the rumor 818 00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:33,960 Speaker 1: was that these were greased with the fat of cows 819 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:38,680 Speaker 1: and pigs. So obviously, if you're Hindu or Muslim, you 820 00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:41,680 Speaker 1: literally can't do that. So they refuse to bite the 821 00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:46,600 Speaker 1: thing of the cartridge because you know, you can't do 822 00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:51,600 Speaker 1: that because it's against your religion one and two you know, 823 00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:55,160 Speaker 1: it's just really fucking disrespectful. Hey, I can't touch this, 824 00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:59,480 Speaker 1: you know, No put it in your mouth, what is 825 00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:01,920 Speaker 1: wrong with you? Like it was done deliberately to upset 826 00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:08,960 Speaker 1: these particular people. So the first person to come forward 827 00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,760 Speaker 1: is this fellow called Mango Pande. He is just the 828 00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:13,600 Speaker 1: first person to protest, and of course they have to 829 00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:15,880 Speaker 1: make a show of room. So within two weeks they 830 00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:18,760 Speaker 1: hang him. And in me route there are these soldiers 831 00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:22,400 Speaker 1: who absolutely refuse to you know, touch the cartridges and 832 00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:26,400 Speaker 1: they get put in jail and because of this, like 833 00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:27,960 Speaker 1: it was like eighty five of them, because of this 834 00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,880 Speaker 1: other Indian soldiers they kill the British officer and go 835 00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:34,480 Speaker 1: to free you know, the other fellows that are in jail, 836 00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,280 Speaker 1: and they march to Delhi and they are joined with 837 00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:42,040 Speaker 1: more soldiers and more soldiers and they seize Delhi and 838 00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:44,960 Speaker 1: declare it part of the Mughal Empire. And it's just 839 00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:50,440 Speaker 1: is mad. I mean, the British do recapture Delhi like 840 00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:55,760 Speaker 1: within a few months. But the point is they try 841 00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,120 Speaker 1: to like bring it down and talk about it as 842 00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:01,360 Speaker 1: if it's like this tiny little mutiny. But they were 843 00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:09,280 Speaker 1: just amassing soldiers. So this uprising happens and it is 844 00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:15,160 Speaker 1: actually eighty percent of the East India Company's own Indian troops. 845 00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:18,360 Speaker 1: And so not only do they kill British soldiers and officers, 846 00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:22,520 Speaker 1: they are killing civilians and they are killing other Indians 847 00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:24,680 Speaker 1: who were loyal to the British Crown or the British 848 00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,520 Speaker 1: East India Company either or it's all the same at 849 00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:31,880 Speaker 1: this point to them. And so the East India Company 850 00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:37,680 Speaker 1: is so fucking sure of their own just inflated self 851 00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:44,400 Speaker 1: worth that they have invented from destroying other nations that 852 00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:52,480 Speaker 1: they just killed thousands and thousands of soldiers, and of 853 00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:56,640 Speaker 1: course anybody who sympathized with these quote unquote rebels they 854 00:59:56,640 --> 01:00:02,480 Speaker 1: also got killed. And at this point the British government, 855 01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:06,000 Speaker 1: who has just kind of been like actively ignoring shit, 856 01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:08,000 Speaker 1: it's been looking the other way for I don't know 857 01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:12,240 Speaker 1: a century or two. At this point it's like, hey, 858 01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:18,480 Speaker 1: let's not do this. And you know, in order to 859 01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:22,720 Speaker 1: cross a line, like for the for the British government 860 01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:26,240 Speaker 1: to just be like, oh, you've gone too far, do 861 01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:29,919 Speaker 1: you know how big a deal that has to be. 862 01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:36,080 Speaker 1: So in eighteen fifty eight, the Crown it abolishes the 863 01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:39,480 Speaker 1: East India Company, like he doesn't give India a dependence, 864 01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,720 Speaker 1: it you know, stays there and takes control and you know, 865 01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,360 Speaker 1: India remains under was it a British rule for what 866 01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:51,160 Speaker 1: another nearly ninety years, I think it is. But the 867 01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:56,960 Speaker 1: East India Company, it is disbanded and it is effectively done. 868 01:00:57,080 --> 01:01:01,280 Speaker 1: It's effectively done. It's it's always play down this whole 869 01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:04,320 Speaker 1: incident which led to the disbandment of the East India Company. 870 01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:10,800 Speaker 1: But it's basically the First War of Independence, like it is, 871 01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:14,680 Speaker 1: and the East India Company it goes lumping away slowly 872 01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:19,520 Speaker 1: but surely until eighteen seventy four when it's like officially 873 01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:23,760 Speaker 1: dissolved because it still exists on paper. But after this 874 01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:28,400 Speaker 1: it's just it is caput, you know. And so eighteen 875 01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:32,400 Speaker 1: seventy four is the demise, the final nail in the 876 01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:37,840 Speaker 1: coffin for the East India Company. And so that's the 877 01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,640 Speaker 1: end of this story of this thing I really wanted 878 01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:43,480 Speaker 1: to talk about and ended up going into a rant 879 01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:47,800 Speaker 1: about taxation on more than one occasion. But yeah, that's 880 01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:51,960 Speaker 1: that's the tale. And if you liked my retelling of 881 01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:57,360 Speaker 1: this horrific piece of history, please feel free to write 882 01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:01,240 Speaker 1: and review five stars on Apple and Spot. There's an 883 01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:03,600 Speaker 1: option on both of them to you know, fill out 884 01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:06,080 Speaker 1: a review and say nice things. Please get five stars 885 01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:11,200 Speaker 1: because the algorithm doesn't understand anything less, so please do that. 886 01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:15,520 Speaker 1: Also sidebar, Now that I'm out of this, some dude 887 01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:19,400 Speaker 1: was like he went out of his way, and I 888 01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:21,800 Speaker 1: don't know who he was because he sent me like 889 01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:25,320 Speaker 1: a paragraph after paragraph DM and when you do that, 890 01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:29,640 Speaker 1: I know from the first like like sentence, like where 891 01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:31,440 Speaker 1: the tone of this is going to be? And this 892 01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:33,919 Speaker 1: was a whole will actually post and I was like, no, 893 01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:36,000 Speaker 1: I don't need to read this, and I just deleted 894 01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:38,760 Speaker 1: it because it's no, it's not going to do that. 895 01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:43,000 Speaker 1: And so he made a point of after I blocked 896 01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:44,760 Speaker 1: him because I'm like, I'm not going to deal with this, 897 01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:48,600 Speaker 1: he made a point of trying to contact me on 898 01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:51,600 Speaker 1: two other social media platforms and then decided to give 899 01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:56,520 Speaker 1: me a one star review on the podcast. Like, dude, 900 01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:59,800 Speaker 1: just like get over it, Like that's a level of 901 01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,360 Speaker 1: that you don't need to be. But anyway, if you 902 01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:06,000 Speaker 1: want to just prove this dude wrong and prove that 903 01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:09,160 Speaker 1: I'm not awful, that would be so nice and I'd 904 01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:13,480 Speaker 1: love you so much, thank you very much. Now, I 905 01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:14,880 Speaker 1: was going to talk about something at the end of 906 01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:18,040 Speaker 1: the show. What was it? Because I've been recording four 907 01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:23,480 Speaker 1: hours and my brain is putting at this point. It's 908 01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:25,800 Speaker 1: going to be really funny because I was think editing 909 01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:33,080 Speaker 1: is very interesting because it takes so many hours me 910 01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:37,680 Speaker 1: to record this and I'm going to be like taking 911 01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:41,960 Speaker 1: pieces away and I have gone on to so many 912 01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:44,640 Speaker 1: rants about so many things. It's going to be interesting 913 01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:50,040 Speaker 1: to see what I've actually left in. But anyway, so 914 01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:54,400 Speaker 1: my trove a trip. It's been approved to Scotland because 915 01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:56,280 Speaker 1: it's like a bunch of areas in Scotland that I 916 01:03:56,600 --> 01:04:01,520 Speaker 1: haven't been to and Edinburgh. I've to Edinburgh, but I 917 01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:05,600 Speaker 1: haven't been up north since I think the furthest I've 918 01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:08,560 Speaker 1: been is Sterling. I never really got a chance to 919 01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:10,560 Speaker 1: go places. And I'm really excited it because it's going 920 01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:14,400 Speaker 1: to be like May next year and more details are 921 01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:16,479 Speaker 1: going to come. But there is a link down below 922 01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:18,160 Speaker 1: if you want to, you know, put down your interest 923 01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:20,960 Speaker 1: and when I have more information, I'll give you some 924 01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:25,240 Speaker 1: more information. I am going to be performing at the 925 01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:29,680 Speaker 1: dunfana Hey Workhouse in dune Gull for Culture Week at 926 01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:33,640 Speaker 1: times and details to follow, but that's going to be happening. 927 01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:36,160 Speaker 1: That's been pretty fun and if you are a longtime 928 01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:38,959 Speaker 1: listener and you want to see me do a live 929 01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:42,160 Speaker 1: show somewhere, let me know where you're from. Even if 930 01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:44,840 Speaker 1: you DM me on Instagram, I'll get it. Maybe I 931 01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:46,480 Speaker 1: should put a poll together, so it's not weird that 932 01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:51,080 Speaker 1: I'm just collecting people's information. I just feel like, if 933 01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:54,760 Speaker 1: I was to do a live show, where should I go? Like, 934 01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:56,520 Speaker 1: where are my options? At least I know where people 935 01:04:56,720 --> 01:05:01,240 Speaker 1: actually want to see me. There's been a few options, 936 01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:04,680 Speaker 1: and you know, I really need to organize it well 937 01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:08,600 Speaker 1: in advance as it turns out. So if you'd like 938 01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:10,720 Speaker 1: to see me, let me know where I should go. 939 01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:16,560 Speaker 1: And of course it is recommendation time, so for listening, 940 01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:20,240 Speaker 1: I am going to recommend she done it. It's this 941 01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:24,360 Speaker 1: podcast by Carolyn Crampton, and she has the most soothing 942 01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:27,880 Speaker 1: voice I have ever heard of my life. Sometimes I 943 01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:30,440 Speaker 1: would have to re listen to episodes because during my 944 01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:34,080 Speaker 1: really bad insomnia phases, the only thing that could put 945 01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:36,720 Speaker 1: me to sleep was the sound of her voice, because 946 01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:41,320 Speaker 1: it's so relaxing, and she talks about like the mysteries 947 01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:45,320 Speaker 1: behind classic detective stories. She talks about the stories behind 948 01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:48,480 Speaker 1: the fiction, and it's so glorious and it's much up 949 01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:51,160 Speaker 1: my street. I fucking love it. And the artwork is beautiful. 950 01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:54,240 Speaker 1: I love it all. So that's for listening. For reading, 951 01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:57,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to suggest Gentlemen, Rogues and Wicked Ladies. A 952 01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:00,720 Speaker 1: Guide to British Highwaymen and Highway Women by Few and 953 01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:05,000 Speaker 1: A McDonald. It is. It's just like a little biography 954 01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:08,320 Speaker 1: book and it's just about like Dick Turpin and Kerry 955 01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:11,160 Speaker 1: Fletcher and things like that, and it's fab I fucking 956 01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:15,400 Speaker 1: love it. And for watching, if you were not already 957 01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:18,280 Speaker 1: watching Secret Invasion, I don't know what else to tell you, 958 01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:23,160 Speaker 1: my friend. It's just it's pulling up my soul. But yeah, 959 01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:25,840 Speaker 1: go watch it. And now that we have covered that, 960 01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,840 Speaker 1: I am going to bid you good night Ariels or 961 01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:32,280 Speaker 1: of what is in my Friends, Bye bye,