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Podcast: Bharatvaarta
Episode: The Empire That Almost Ruled India | Uday S. Kulkarni
Description: India’s past is often told as a sequence of empires rising and falling — but few moments were as decisive as the 18th century, when one power came remarkably close to reshaping the entire subcontinent.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Uday S. Kulkarni joins Bharatvaarta to trace the rise of the Marathas — from the early vision of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to a force that expanded across India, challenged the Mughals, and altered the balance of power in the subcontinent.
We unpack how Swaraj was not just a political idea but a civilisational response to centuries of upheaval, how military innova...