Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947,...
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Author: Shashi Tharoor
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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Tharoor, Shashi

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

¥4,448

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

¥4,448
Author: Shashi Tharoor
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 deindustrialization 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.



Author: Shashi Tharoor
Publisher: Scribe Us
Published: 05/08/2018
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781947534308

About the Author
Tharoor, Shashi: - 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 Leader of Tomorrow.

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