PROGRAMME 2 BRIEF ENCOUNTER. SYNOPSIS
They came as traders and left as rulers, but in between stands the biggest
turnabout in the story of Britain and India; for a brief flicker of time the
relationship confounded the stereotypes - a fusion culture was born.
PART 2
Back in England, Indo-mania took root. Indian clothes, fashion, music, literature and food… even bathing habits came under an Indian spell. The Prince Regent crowned it all with his Indian folly - the Brighton Pavilion. We chart the Indianisation of England, on a journey with the eighteenth century traveller and celebrity Abu Talib Khan.