![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, publicado por primera vez en la India con el título An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, es una obra de no ficción de Shashi Tharoor, político y diplomático indio, sobre los efectos del Dominio colonial británico en la India. ![]()
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