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The Hidden History of Bengal: River Kingdoms to Revolution
In the pilot episode of The Hidden History of Bengal, Lucas and Luna begin at a specific moment: the monsoon of 1576, where the last independent Sultan of Bengal, Daud Khan Karrani, faces the Mughal army at the Battle of Rajmahal. From there, they pull back to explore Bengal's geography—the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, the Sundarbans mangrove forest—and its ancient past: the rise of the Gauda kingdom, the Buddhist Pala Empire (8th–12th centuries) that ruled from Vikramapura, and the Sena dynasty that followed. The conversation touches on Bengal's role as a crossroads of trade, its…
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