Description

In part 2 (Episode 15) of our BRIDGERTON deep dive, Cornell University history professor Durba Ghosh (author of Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire) and The Boston Sisters look at the questions:

• Where does the Bridgerton family's wealth come from? 


• How does money influence the Sharmas's choices in marriage?


• What is the role of colonial capitalism in the fortunes of Bridgerton's Regency?


Plus our RECAP of Bridgerton Season 2 at the top (Spoiler alert if you haven't watched the series)

And finally our️ LIGHTNING ROUND ️with Durba Ghosh

Shondaland's Bridgerton (Netflix) presents a Regency Britain where people of diverse colors, races, and cultural backgrounds meet and mate through choreographed matchmaking in grand ballrooms and frolicking country estates of "the ton." 

Time Stamps (approx.):

• 1:34 Intro
• 2:00 Bridgerton Season 2 Plot (or Story) Recap
• 8:25 The What If World of Bridgerton
• 10:07 Follow the Money: British Wealth and Colonial Economy
• 19:39 Women's Sexual Knowledge (British/Indian) in Bridgerton
• 25:52 British Father/Indian Mother -- Anthony & Kate's Children
• 32:22 Mr. Sharma, the Indian Clerk: Class, Race, and the Sheffields
• 38:21 Lightning Round 4 Questions
• 45:15 Historical Drama as Mirror of the Present

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