![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shashi Tharoor served for twenty-nine years at the UN, culminating as Under-Secretary General. In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britains stained Indian legacy. He goes on to show how Britains Industrial Revolution was founded on Indias deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation.īritish 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 Britains interests alone. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. In the eighteenth century, Indias share of the world economy was as large as Europes. Inglorious Empire PDF Summary The full-scale Loot of India A passionate and young American philosopher Will Durant who first landed on the shores of India in 1930, discovered the economic calamities induced by the British East India Corporation. laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. ![]() Tharoors impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires. The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on Indias experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor ![]()
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