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The Pirate Republic of Sundarbans: Bengal's Rebel Outlaw State
In the early 1600s, a Portuguese renegade named Sebastião Tibau carved out a pirate kingdom in Bengal's Sundarbans delta. He raided Mughal shipping, enslaved thousands, and even forged a bizarre alliance with the Buddhist kingdom of Arakan. But when the Mughal emperor sent an army to crush him, Tibau turned the tide with a secret weapon: an amphibious fleet of sandbanks and crocodile-infested creeks. This episode uncovers the forgotten 'pirate republic' that terrorized the Bay of Bengal for decades, the king who hired European mercenaries against his own people, and the…
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