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Free Thinking: Cities, Export of Empire, India's New Story

Cities, Export of Empire, India's New Story

27/05/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Cities, Export of Empire, India's New Story

Rana Mitter and Tristram Hunt on how Britain's empire gave shape to today's global cities.

Historian and MP Tristram Hunt on how Britain's experience of Empire shaped today's global cities and Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Dr Shruti Kapila and Pankaj Mishra discuss India's future.

Rana Mitter talks to MP and historian Tristram Hunt about the urbanising effects of Britain's trading Empire as the pair walk the streets of London finding reminders of, and signposts to, the dominating imperatives and concepts of the era.


As India puts its colonial history firmly behind it - what does 2014's pivotal national election tell us about the forces shaping the country's future direction? Rana Mitter is joined in discussion by Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Dr Shruti Kapila and the writer, Pankaj Mishra.

Producer: Jacqueline Smith.

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