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Friday, June 20, 2025

Audiobook | Chapter 6 (II) "New Problems" | Parts 9-16 | The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru

🎧 New Episode | ðŸ“– The Discovery of India - Chapter 6  (II)"New Problems" 

In this concluding part of the chapter “New Problems,” Nehru examines India’s struggle to adapt to changing political powers, cultural currents, and the emerging dominance of Europe.

Here’s what you’ll discover:

  • 👑 The Indianization of the Mughals => from Babar to Akbar

  • ⚙️ The technological gap between Europe and Asia

  • 🌱 The development of a common Indo-Islamic culture

  • Aurangzeb’s reactionary policies, rise of Hindu nationalism, and Shivaji

  • ⚔️ The Maratha-British power struggle and eventual British triumph

  • 📉 India’s growing backwardness and British technical superiority

  • 🛡️ Glimpses of Ranjit Singh and Jai Singh as regional powers

  • 💰 A look at India’s economic background and the “two Englands

🎙️ Listen to this compelling narration of power, resistance, and cultural shifts in the last centuries before colonial rule took full form.



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