The mighty vats that helped a maharaja cross the oceans | City Palace, Jaipur

Описание: What connects a pair of gigantic silver vats in the Jaipur City Palace to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman Islands? Surprisingly, a long-held Indian taboo.

India is an ancient land with a long coastline. But barring a few exceptions like the Cholas, there are very few accounts of great Indian seafarers and explorers. The reason perhaps lies in an age-old taboo called ‘Kalapani’ that prohibited Indians from travelling overseas. And yet, in the early 1900s, a king from Jaipur went off on a long journey across half the globe, after finding ways to circumvent the taboo. This clever workaround was used by the British too, to move over a million Indian soldiers and hordes of indentured labourers around the world. This is the story of the mighty silver vats that helped an Indian maharaja sail across the oceans.

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Editing credits: Studio A, Chennai
Music, Sound Design, Mix & Master - S. S. Sriram (instagram.com/ss.sriram)

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Silver Vat - By Ray Tsang from Irvine, USA - City PalaceUploaded by Ekabhishek, CC BY-SA 2.0
Cellular Jail in Andaman - By Jomesh - Own work, CC BY 3.0
City Palace, Jaipur - By Diego Delso - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Death of Queen Victoria - By Coulter, John, ed;Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901;Cooper, John A. (John Alexander), b. 1868, joint ed - https://www.flickr.com/photos/interne...
Queen Victoria - By Alexander Bassano - Original text: Scanned from the book 'The National Portrait Gallery History of the Kings and Queens of England' by David Williamson, ISBN 1855142287, p. 153.National Portrait Gallery: NPG x95802, Public Domain
King Edward VII - By Luke Fildes, Public Domain
Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh - By Jessrajsingh Seesodia - https://archive.org/details/rajputsfi..., Public Domain
Govind Devji - By Sameergoyal (talk) - I (Sameergoyal (talk)) created this work entirely by myself., CC BY-SA 3.0
Jaipur - By Bourne & Shepherd - Jaipur, India -Principal Street, Public Domain
Priest - By nevil zaveri from navsari (guj), india - wait .. there's a chance!, varanasi, CC BY 2.0
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Newly arrived Indian coolies in Trinidad - Public Domain
Freedom fighters in Cellular jail - By This mediaFconaway (talk) (Uploads)Original work - This is a scan of an original photograph in my collection, showing a prison under construction, n.d. The photographer's name is not known. The inscription says, "Port Blair - Panoramic View of Viper New Jails"., Public Domain
Hanging Cell - By Harvinder Chandigarh - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Cellular Jail entrance - By Biswarup Ganguly - Own work, CC BY 3.0

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