Olivia Colman discovers Indian family links in Who Do You Think You Are? - BBC
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Actress Olivia Colman claims to be 'the least adventurous person I know.' As for her ancestors, apart from a rumour that there was a Frenchwoman somewhere in her family tree, Olivia thinks they are largely from Norfolk, so she is astonished to discover that she needs to travel to India to find out more about her great-great-great-grandmother Harriot.
Olivia finds records that reveal Harriot was an orphan in 1811 on a ship bound for England from (then) Calcutta. Harriot's father was an Englishman, but the identity of her mother, who gave birth to her in a remote Indian village, is a mystery Olivia delights in solving.
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They would be proud Olivia.
The Best actress in the world Won 2019 OSCARS .
May you achieve all the glory and Happiness in the world.
The bit when she reads the french woman's letter - about her mother's death and people saying goodbye - is so beautiful. I'd be thrilled to read my ancestors' diary and/or letters. It's just so good to discover the life that people led, what they felt and thought back in a regular tuesday afternoon 90 years ago, when they sat to write somebody a letter. Makes you think about time.
Harriet's story would make a great movie!
Why are none of the Indian researchers/archivists identified? Has it been edited out?
This is actually a promo. You can find the names of the Calcutta Professors in the main video
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The British East India company must have maintained only records of mostly British residents in India during the East India company rule. From the 1857 onwards, when India was directly absorbed into the British Empire, records of Indians were also recorded. But it is hard to find records of many Indians prior to that. Natively, Indians never maintained records of their own people. I believe there was no such records of Indian census taken before probably because India was being ruled by different empires and small kingdoms. They may not have taken such effort to store records of their people.
This is not the whole video. Just parts put together.
You r welcome in Bihar !
So good that you traced your ancestors. Lots of love from South Africa
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"She's French!" "FRENCH?! Oh...! :-/" hahaha
Any vedio after this
I love the indian historians who have untainted RP accent. They must be rare spices.
Not really, all our English teachers at school have a similar accent. This accent is common around places where the British were concentrated around during the Raj. Places such as Bombay, Calcutta and some other lesser known places like my home town Mangalore.
Bengali is a really beautiful language, it's really soothing to listen the language. So people in west bengal develop a really good English accent
Nah it's pretty common
@@joyid That's such a stupid logic. Bengal was under the British rule for maximum time and benefitted with Calcutta being the capital of British Indian Empire. Thts the only reason.
Nice
Welcome to Bihar mam.....
Wow
One of my favorite WDYTYA episodes
Great great great great great..............
I wonder who william slessor married.
Couple of weeks late luv...
Kisaan-ganj. Kisaan means farmer and gunj loosely translates to neighborhood or a borough. So farmer's borough
No you got it wrong,
In
KishanGunj , Kishnan is the name for Lord Krishna
I knew i liked her.
So much of Indian and Brit history together...
not really. A couple hundred years. Of thousands and thousands apart.
@@seanettles657 your country isn't thousands of years old our is 4500-5000 yrs old
And most of it nothing to be proud of
I’m mostly interested in Harriet’s Bihari mummy
Mughals white Indians or a poor lady
I think not the latter because her mother had an Ayah.
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After the episode aired they did more research and found out the name of mother and found out that she wasn't Indian at all. Her moms name was Serafina Sincere an English woman.
Kishanganj is in bengal. Not bihar
Kishanganj is a city and district headquarters of Kishanganj district in Purnia division of Bihar state.
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