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World wars, in 1947 great britain decided to end their merely two hundred year rule over india. in an attempt to prevent what the colonials saw as an inevitable civil war between hindus, muslims, and sikhs, the british commissioned sir cyril radcliffe, a lawyer from wales, to draw up a new border. uday: he was given two months, you know. anthony: two months to divide create a new country basically. uday: two months to divide the so he took the map, and just drew a line. you know people died because of the displacement. unofficially they say it s two million people. you know when giants fight, the minnows get trampled upon. anthony: in one of the largest exchanges of populations in history, many millions of people fled their homes. almost immediately, religious violence broke out on a mass scale. this is exactly what the partition had been intended to avoid. do people here still have families over there? uday: yeah, they do. ....
India, and surprisingly, it was the capital of burma during the war days. raaja: so, here you have this tiny, little village up on the hill, connected to the rest of the world by a narrow mountain path, and they rule approximately a fifth of the human race for eight months every year. in today s context, it would almost seem bizarre. thank you. anthony: mulligatawny soup. classic example of what we think of is of as indian food in the west, but not at all, this was originally a soup made by indian chefs to accommodate british tastes. is that correct? raaja: it was something what you would call halfway between a regular dal, a lentil, which you would eat, and a broth. the glace chops. rakejhwar: mutton glace chops. basically, meat cooked in its own fat, and it would have a lot of curry on it. it s a misnomer, this meat is not actually mutton. it is chevron. ....
anthony: i ve been to mumbai, kolkata, sundarbans, rajasthan, kerala. this is a part of india different than any other part. look, it s fascinating and beautiful. oh yeah. sweet! anthony: wow. it s moving! hashim: voila. ....
navroop: oh, yeah! big time, yes. the religion doesn t matter. food is religion here! man: first time in amritsar? what do you feel in this place? anthony: checking off my list of things to do in the punjab, i gotta score some animal protein. it s time. i ve been going all morrissey for like two days now and frankly, that s enough. i need chicken. like we are in the ass end of nowhere here. where am i? ....
reggie: i hope you enjoyed the dinner too. anthony: oh very much. it was delicious. really wonderful. lot of history in this house. and one can be forgiven for maybe briefly forgetting, what it took to build this lost kingdom. and how much the world has changed around it. ....