Our Fake History · PodcastOne
Episode #221 - Did India's Thugs Really Exist? (Part II)
February 12, 2025·1 hr 25 min·5 clips
A British magistrate survives poisoning, only for his officer to be fatally shot, triggering brutal colonial reprisals.
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A skeptical colonial history episode that follows how a contested label was turned into a fact.
Sebastian Major treats a colonial manhunt as a lesson in how a loaded label gets made to feel natural. The episode moves from N.J. Hellhead and British campaigns against bandits, rebels, and Zamindars in early-19th-century India to the later thug confessions that hardened a…
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