372. The First British Indians: The Sisters Rejected By Queen Victoria (Ep 4)

Well, hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand. And me, William Trimple. This is this is the final episode, Willie, of our our four-part series on the DoLeapsing sisters and I think before we start, we should say it does involve suicide, it involves severe mental illness, and it involves young women. So if this is very difficult for anyone listening, just um take care.

And if you are in the UK or Ireland and you're listening to this and it triggers something, I'll just tell you the Samaritans. are available and they are free to call from anywhere in the UK and Ireland. And I'm sure if you're listening in the United States, Australia, wherever you are in the world, there are helplines available. It is a genuinely sad story. It's a fascinating story.

And what I love about this series of yours, Anita, is how every one of these stories is quite different. And this story really is as much about class as about race, isn't it? I mean, there are a whole set of disabilities in the 19th century associated with race, but this slaps on an extra level of difficulty for the women we're going to be talking about. So introduces to us, who who are we meeting today? And can I just say I'm so glad you said that because um, you know, each sister, different story, could be a different lifetime, you know, sort of not even intersecting, but they do.

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