S1.E7 - The War to End All Wars

The British Empire goes to war, and India is taken along with it. Hundreds of thousands of Indians are part of the war effort all over the world, and Indian nationalists and British liberals hope this display of loyalty will be rewarded. Indian revolutionaries are not prepared to wait for freedom to come to India, and plot a 2nd Indian Mutiny. The Imperial War Cabinet and the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms offer some concessions, but the Rowlatt Commission is hard at work.

Thank you to my guest historians:

• Sam Dalrymple, author of Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Reshaping of Modern Asia (2025)
• Mark Condos, Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Global History at King's College London, and author of The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India, 1849-1935 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
• Vineet Thakur, Assistant Professor at Universiteit Leiden, and author of V.S. Srinivasa Sastri: A Liberal Life. (London: Routledge, 2023)
• Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor at Tufts University, and author of The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)
• Kim Wagner, Professor of Imperial and Global History at King's College London, and author of The Great Fear of 1857: Rumours, Conspiracies, and the Making of the Indian Uprising (Witney: Peter Lang, 2010)

Thank you to my guest voice actor, Wesley Livesay, host of The History of the Great War and The History of the Second World War podcasts.

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