327. Indian Uprising 1857: The British Strike Back (Part 6)

It's 1857 and one of the greatest uprisings against British rule is about to happen and there is one city at the heart of all of this. And that city is Delhi. The British are driven out. The last Mughal Emperor is hauled back onto the throne, and for a moment it looks as if British rule in India has collapsed. But inside the city, rebellion is turning into chaos.

Outside the walls there is a battered British army, but it is digging in, it is waiting. to strike back. What follows is one of the bloodiest sieges of the nineteenth century, a fight for a city, but beyond that, a fight for the future of India. This is the Siege of Delhi. Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand.

And me, William De Rumpel. Now in our last episode, we were in the central Indian plains with the formidable kick ass woman, Rani of Jossey, um, described as the Joan of Arc of the East, and she was fighting a desperate, heroic, ultimately doomed battle against the British. I think she's more kick ass than than Joan of Arc, and I think she's more your kind of girl than either than Joan of Arc. Well, yes, I mean Joan of Arc's a bit saintly for you.

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