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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did To India
[Paperback - 2018]
shashi tharoor
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Publisher: Penguin Uk | ISBN: 9780141987149 | Pages: 336
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Inglorious Empire' tells the real story of the British in India from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj, revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. 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 deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.

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Shashi Tharoor is a former UN under-secretary-general, a Congress MP in India, the author of sixteen books, and the recipient of literary awards including a Commonwealth Writers Prize. His Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India was a Sunday Times bestseller and a Financial Times Book of

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