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The Sundarbans Frontier: Pirates, Tigers, and the Mughal Navy
In this episode, Lucas and Luna venture into the mangroves of the Sundarbans, the tidal labyrinth where Bengal's history meets one of the world's most dangerous coastlines. They trace the region's role as a refuge for pirates, rebels, and fugitives—from the ancient Maurya-era boatmen to the Mughal-era Bara Bhuiyan and the Portuguese renegade Sebastião Gonçalves Tibau. But the Sundarbans is also a place of myth and terror: the tiger-god Dakshin Ray, the legendary island of Ganga Sagar where the Ganges meets the sea, and the 19th-century colonial attempts to map and control this…
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