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The Last Pirate King: Sitaram Ray's Jungle Fortress
After the Mughals crushed the Baro-Bhuiyans, one lord refused to submit. Sitaram Ray, the zamindar of Bhusna, turned the dense forests and marshes of southwestern Bengal into a guerrilla kingdom that defied the Mughal Empire for decades. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Sitaram's rise as a pirate-turned-prince, his fortified capital at Jaynagar, the network of canals and hidden granaries that kept his rebellion alive, and the eventual Mughal campaign that finally brought him down in 1714. Along the way, they uncover how Sitaram's revenue system, based on control of river…
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