Scrolls & Leaves: World History Podcast

Chatroom 16: Decolonizing a Maharaja


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Friederike Voigt , the curator of South Asia at the National Museum of Scotland, has been on a decade-long quest to investigate and restore the histories to objects in the museum that speak of colonization. In this episode, we discuss the objects and history of Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last King of the Sikh Empire -- and how he's represented in two paintings by artists who come from drastically different backgrounds.
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