![]() ![]() Shashi Tharoor presented his book Inglorious E. In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain’s stained Indian legacy. Shashi Tharoor on Inglorious Empire What the British Did to India in Hong Kong 29,381 views Author Dr. ![]() He goes on to show how Britain’s Industrial Revolution was founded on India’s 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 Britain’s interests alone. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Inglorious Empire (English, Paperback, Tharoor Shashi) 4. In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. ![]() ‘Tharoor’s impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires … laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. ![]() The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India’s experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor ![]()
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