the duckduckgo app, lets you search and browse pria blocking most trackers all forf your search history is never tracked, so it can t be shared. and when you leave search, duckduckgo helps keep companies from watching you as you brows. join tens of millions of people making the easy switch by downloading the app today. duckduckgo, privacy simplified. (upbeat music) anthony: leaving the fertile plains of the punjab behind, i m headed out towards the himalayas. and getting there, at least the way i m going, hasn t changed much in the last hundred years. all aboard!
consulate state, which used to be a part of british india. anthony: it was another time. one that few still remember. [ train whistle ] the india before partition. when these rooms, this house, was part of the seat of power. reggie: i had the privilege of being born in this house, upstairs. anthony: this was the maharaja s bed. i m in his chambers at present. reggie: and it was the routine that we d all parade up into my grandfather s room to wish him good morning, and then we d all come down for breakfast. anthony: the walls tell a story. many stories. reggie: there used to be a lot of animosity. there were two very divided classes, in india.
and normally, they were not even supposed to look in the direction. it was bad manners. anthony: right. raaja: it wasn t easy for the people who built the town. it was india that paid the bill for all this grandeur, for all this pomp, for all this show. rakejhwar: they did it, at our expense, and with our money. anthony: at the end of the meal there s coffee, brandy, and cigars in the sitting room. as one does, or once did. 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.
Anthony dives into the ever-changing state of Punjab with a trip to Amritsar, sampling cuisine at a roadside restaurants, a Sikh celebration and a free.
northern india, because he was a gourmet connoisseur of food. anthony: tonight, dinner at chapslee. an elaborate anglo-indian menu from reggie s childhood. reggie: i will put on my apron first. anthony: my fellow guests, two of reggie s friends. raaja bahsin, a historian on the subject of shimla, and rakejhwar lall jood, the barrister. there s so much history here. i mean, while i take a dim view of colonization, it s very hard to resist the charms of a house like this. raaja: that s quite understandable, actually. you ve got a hundred years of very, very intense history funneled into a very small place. rakejhwar: and this house used to house the secretary of state to the crown.