In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy. Inglorious Empire: What British did to India is a sharp and fast-paced book written by an Indian politician, a former senior United Nations official and renowned novelist Shashi Tharoor. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry. In fact, as the movie races towards its climax, it gets funnier and.
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. And thats another surprising element here - Inglourious Basterds is often very funny.
The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. An essential read' Financial TimesIn the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's.īy 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. 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'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires.
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