In this episode (and the next 2), I talk about the case that resulted in one of the longest legal battles in colonial India - a case so absurd, so improbable and so intriguing with its many twists and turns, that it lingers on the public imagination to this day. This was a story where the truth was certainly stranger than fiction!

It's the curious case of the Bhawal Sanyasi. 

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Spoiler Warning!

There is a novelised version of the events in a book titled 'The Mendicant Prince' by Aruna Chakravarti. If you wish to read that book, then please do so, before you listen to these 3 episodes.

Host: Suparna Chatterjee (www.suparnachatterjee.com)

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Music by B. Prasanna and Khurshed Batliwala

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Books and References:

Wikipedia
https://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7277.pdf
Articles in The Dhaka Tribune
The Mendicant Prince by Aruna Chakravarti
A Princely Imposter? by Partha Chatterjee