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Inglorious empire buy5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain s stained Indian legacy. He goes on to show how Britain s Industrial Revolution was founded on India s deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry. 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. ![]() The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. An essential read Financial Times In the eighteenth century, India s share of the world economy was as large as Europe s. laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. Buy inglorious empire what the british did to india by shashi tharoor isbn 9781849048088 from s book store everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 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. ![]()
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