Audiobook | Chapter 7 (I) "THE LAST PHASE (1)" | Parts 1-6 | The Discovery... by Jawaharlal Nehru

 🎧 New Episode | The Discovery of India | Chapter 7 (Part 1) 📖

Title: The Last Phase 1

In this compelling section, Nehru begins to trace the decline of India under British colonial rule and the first stirrings of modern nationalism. The economic, political, and intellectual foundations of a new India, and its coming struggle, begin to take shape.

Highlights of this episode:

• 🏛️ British consolidation of power and rise of the nationalist movement

• 👑 The ideology of empire and creation of a new elite caste

• 💰 How the plunder of Bengal financed England’s Industrial Revolution

• 🏭 The destruction of Indian industries and decline of agriculture

• 🔗 India becomes an economic and political appendage of Britain

• 🏰 The growth of the princely states under British protection

• 📰 The contradictions of British rule: emergence of voices like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the Indian press, Sir William Jones, and English education in Bengal

🎙️ This episode unpacks how colonial exploitation reshaped India’s economy, society, and self-perception.

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