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If you look up Juliana Dias da Costa, Wikipedia will tell you that she was “a woman of Portuguese descent from Kochi taken to the Mughal Empire's court of Aurangzeb in Hindustan, who became a Harem-favorite of the Mughal emperor of India Bahadur Shah I, Aurangzeb's son, who became the monarch in the year 1707.” Born in 1658, she was way more than that. Come with us on this episode to discover the incredible - and YES - elephant rider Juliana, a women commanding armies, deciding politics, healing maladies and navigating the Mughal Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries!

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