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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Shashi Tharoor
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Description for Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Hardback. Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India - from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj - revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJD1; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 224 x 33. Weight in Grams: 540.
***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 ... Read more
***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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849048088
SKU
V9781849048088
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About Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor served for twenty-nine years at the UN, culminating as Under-Secretary General. He is a Congress MP in India, the author of fourteen previous books and has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Tharoor has a PhD from the Fletcher School and was named by the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998 as a Global ... Read more
Reviews for Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Remarkable . . . The book is savagely critical of 200 years of the British in India. It makes very uncomfortable reading for Brits.
Matt Ridley, The Times His writing is a delight and he seldom misses his target . . . Tharoor should be applauded for tackling an impossibly contentious subject . . . he deserves to be ... Read more
Matt Ridley, The Times His writing is a delight and he seldom misses his target . . . Tharoor should be applauded for tackling an impossibly contentious subject . . . he deserves to be ... Read more