May 24, 2022

BRIDGERTON 2: Marriage, MONEY, and the Sharma Family (Ep. 15)

50 minutes

In part 2 (Episode 15) of our BRIDGERTON deep dive, Cornell University history professor Durba Ghosh (author of Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire) and The Boston Sisters look at the questions:

• Where does the Bridgerton family's wealth come from?  

• How does money influence the Sharmas's choices in marriage? 

• What is the role of colonial capitalism in the fortunes of Bridgerton's Regency? 

Plus our RECAP of Bridgerton Season 2 at the top (Spoiler alert if you haven't watched the series)

And finally our️ LIGHTNING ROUND ️with Durba Ghosh

Shondaland's Bridgerton (Netflix) presents a Regency Britain where people of diverse colors, races, and cultural backgrounds meet and mate through choreographed matchmaking in grand ballrooms and frolicking country estates of "the ton."

Time Stamps (approx.):

1:34 Intro

2:00 Bridgerton Season 2 Plot (or Story) Recap

8:25 The What If World of Bridgerton

10:07 Follow the Money: British Wealth and Colonial Economy

19:39 Women's Sexual Knowledge (British/Indian) in Bridgerton

25:52 British Father/Indian Mother -- Anthony & Kate's Children

32:22 Mr. Sharma, the Indian Clerk: Class, Race, and the Sheffields

38:21 Lightning Round 4 Questions

45:15 Historical Drama as Mirror of the Present

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