Deepthi Murali, Ph.D.
Deepthi Murali is assistant professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. She is an art historian of South Asia and a digital public historian. Her research focuses on the transcultural ways of production, circulation, and use of decorative art objects from southern India and the networks and politics of trade, empire, and colonialism in the Indian Ocean World that shape artistic exchanges in the 18th and 19th centuries.
June 30, 2025
Episode 16: The Tea
British Americans' unquenchable thirst for tea and a looming financial disaster for the East India Company leads to a new crisis in North America when seven tea-laden ships are sent to the colonies in 1773.