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"If you have to take an beautiful enslaved convert boy from another province to become your lover, and then you fall hopelessly in love with him, and then promote him and he attains great power, do be aware than he might actually want to take your throne." Somehow, this extremely specific lesson was forgotten by two generations of rulers. Join us in a trip back to the court of 1300s Delhi for a story of love, lust, intrigue, revolution, and, in the words of a historian of the time, "the results of pampering young men and catamites."\nClick here to subscribe to our monthly podcast "Extra Bad Gays" and support the work we do to make the show.\n----more----\nSOURCES:\nIndira Chatterjee, "Alienation, Intimacy and Gender: Problems for a History of Love in South Asia," in Ruth Vanita ed.,\xa0Queering India: Same-Sex Love And Eroticism In Indian Culture And Society\xa0(Abingdon: Routledge, 2002)\nAbraham Eraly,\xa0Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate\xa0(Delhi: Penguin India, 2014)\nRuth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai, eds.,\xa0Same-Sex Love in India: Readings in Indian Literature\xa0(New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016)\nOur intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicdesigner.