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Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India (Paperback)
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Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India (Paperback)
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The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British
colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat
Shashi Tharoor 'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to
the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ... laying bare
the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former
subjects. An essential read' Financial Times In the eighteenth
century, India's share of the world economy was as large as
Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had
decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred
unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused
millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified
itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed,
but Shashi Tharoor takes demolishes this position, demonstrating
how every supposed imperial 'gift' - from the railways to the rule
of law - was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to
show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's
deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.
In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor
exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's
stained Indian legacy.
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