#23- Dr. Tathagata Neogi: Calcutta History

All Walks of Life Podcast

English - August 27, 2020 06:13 - 1 hour - 132 MB Video
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Previous Episode: #22- Syed Yusuf Shahab: The Lost Sufis of Delhi

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Dr. Tathagata Neogi is an archaeologist who completed his PhD at the University of Exeter and soon quit his academic job to pursue his passion for history and heritage.

He along with his wife founded Heritage Walk Calcutta a research and heritage-based organization in 2017.

In this conversation, we talk about academia and how it may not be the best place to present new ideas, the Chinese community in Calcutta which is home to the oldest China Town in South Asia, the manmade famine that occurred in Bengal in Churchill's orders and how that killed 3 million Bengalis and the stupidity of the East India Company.

EPISODE LINKS:

Heritage Walk Calcutta's website: https://www.heritagewalkcalcutta.com/

Heritage Walk Calcutta on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heritagewalkcal/?hl=en

Heritage Walk Calcutta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/heritagewalkcal

Heritage Walk Calcutta on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heritagewalkcal

Heritage Walk Calcutta on Medium:

https://medium.com/the-calcutta-blog

Heritage Walk Calcutta on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKwt08n6W6gNWYddut39sSA Dr. Tathagata Neogi on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/tathagata.neogi

Dr. Tathagata Neogi on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ArchaeoNomad

Dr. Tathagata Neogi on Medium:

https://medium.com/@tathagataneogi

SOURCES MENTIONED:

Graham Hancock:

https://grahamhancock.com/

The Lost Sufis of Delhi:

http://orangebooks.in/product/the-lost-sufis-of-delhi/

Imagined Communities:

https://www.amazon.in/Imagined-Communities-Reflections-Origin-Nationalism/dp/1844670864

Was Taj Mahal a Shiva Temple:

https://www.tajmahal.org.uk/legends/taj-a-temple.html#:~:text=Shah%20Jahan%2C%20belonging%20to%20the,of%20his%20wife%20Mumtaz%20Mahal.&text=One%20such%20legend%20has%20it,name%20of%20'Tejo%20Mahalya'.

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy:

https://www.primevideo.com/region/eu/detail/Detective-Byomkesh-Bakshy/0JXJKOIK3OG8LIMD7PWPRX7YIL/?ref_=dvm_pds_gen_in_as_s_gt_dsaallwebpages|m_static-c_c456873334747

Chinese Community in Calcutta:

https://medium.com/the-calcutta-blog/the-oldest-chinatown-in-south-asia-9bb40f7997c1

People stage protest, shout anti-China slogans in Kolkata:

https://indianexpress.com/photos/india-news/india-china-lac-border-kolkata-protest-6468434/5/

Momobox:

https://www.facebook.com/momoboxcc/

Siraj ud-Daulah:

https://learn.culturalindia.net/siraj-ud-daulah.html

Black Hole Tragedy:

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-was-the-black-hole-of-calcutta-195152

Bengal Famine:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-churchill-policies-contributed-to-1943-bengal-famine-study The

Stupid History Podcast | Ep. 4 | Joy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB6Anil2v4E

The British Couldn’t Take India’s Heat, So They Imported Ice From New England:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-did-people-get-ice

India's Ghadar Party Born in San Francisco:

https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=India%27s_Ghadar_Party_Born_in_San_Francisco#:~:text=In%20the%20early%20twentieth%20century,British%20Empire's%20rule%20in%20India.

The Stupid History Podcast | Ep. 3 | The River Fiasco:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2970241023068972

Calcutta’s dark past: The city was a thriving market for slaves in mid-18th century:

https://scroll.in/magazine/886528/calcuttas-dark-past-the-city-was-a-thriving-market-for-slaves-in-mid-18th-century Anarchy: https://www.amazon.in/Anarchy-Company-Corporate-Violence-Pillage/dp/1526618508

Saving Private Ryan:

https://www.amazon.com/Saving-Private-Ryan-Tom-Hanks/dp/B008CBZX7E

Echoes from Old Calcutta:

https://www.amazon.in/Echoes-Old-Calcutta-Reminiscences-Hastings/dp/133078605X

PODCAST INFO:

Illustrator:

Nandini Agarwal

Nandini's website:

https://www.nandiniagarwal.net/

Nandini's Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/nandinistud...

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