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Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose
FromThe History Hour
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Jan 15, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
The Indian independence campaigner, Subhas Chandra Bose, sided with Hitler's axis powers in World War Two to try to free his country from British rule. We'll hear from his great-niece about why she thinks that if he had lived he could have changed the course of India's history. We'll also hear from Dr Shruti Kapila of Cambridge University about why India's current government is celebrating Bose. Plus a nuclear scientist tells us about his role in a secret project to make safe vast swathes of nuclear-contaminated land in post-Soviet Kazakhstan - as well as preventing nuclear material from falling into the wrong hands. Also, the reckless actions which led to the sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, the first woman to have silicone breast implants and Malick Sidibé, the Malian photographer whose work altered people's perceptions about 1960s Africa.
Photo: Subhas Chandra Bose giving a speech in Nazi Germany in 1942.
Photo: Subhas Chandra Bose giving a speech in Nazi Germany in 1942.
Released:
Jan 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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