88: Playing With The Past: Gandhi and Rang De Basanti with Torrey Dance

In an effort to engage more with 20th Century Indian history, we play a board game about the Indian Independence movement and discuss Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s 2006 film Rang De Basanti.

Show Notes:

Welcome Torrey Dance!

If you’d like to skip the board game talk, jump to 48:21

What we were taught about the decolonization of India

Gandhi: The Decolonization of British India, 1917-1947

COIN Series

(INTERVAL (“Rang De Basanti” from Rang De Basanti)

Rang De Basanti

Awards aspirations

Indian revolutionaries

New Kings of the World by Fatima Bhutto

Arranged! and SHASN

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