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Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India (Hardcover)
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Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India (Hardcover)
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***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** 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. Beyond conquest and deception, 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
on and 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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