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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
- Writer: Shashi Tharoor
- Category: English
- Pages: 305
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- Model: STP-15522
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In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was
as large as Europe's. By 1947, it had decreased six-fold. In Inglorious
Empire, Shashi Tharoor tells the real story of the British in India,
from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the
Raj, and reveals how Britain's rise was built upon its depredations in
India. India was Britain's biggest cash cow, and Indians literally paid
for their own oppression. Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on
India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile
industry. Under the British, millions died from starvation--including 4
million in 1943 alone, after national hero Churchill diverted Bengal's
food stocks to the war effort. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire
blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters and entrenched
institutionalised racism. British imperialism justified itself as
enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed. Tharoor takes on
and demolishes the arguments for the Empire, demonstrating how every
supposed imperial 'gift', from the railways to the rule of law, was
designed in Britain's interests alone. This incisive reassessment of
colonialism exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of
Britain's stained Indian legacy.
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| Pages | 305 |