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Brookline may seem like a glaring omission from Boston’s borders, a gap between Brighton and West Roxbury. It didn’t start out that way.

'Bridgerton' Season 2 introduces Kate and Edwina Sharma, women of Indian descent on the London marriage market. Here's the real history behind them.

Season 2 of the Netflix show centers on the Sharma family, whose story of moving between England and India has echoes in historical fact.

The second series of Regency romance hit Bridgerton will welcome Simone Ashley, a British actor of South Asian descent, in a lead role – and and many have speculated that the storyline of her character, Kate Sharma, could draw on histories of people from Asian heritage in Regency England. Durba Ghosh, professor of history at Cornell University, introduces the real elites of Asian descent who socialised in the ballrooms of Georgian London…