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. Read more cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. An essential read' Financial Times In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. 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. India - History - British occupation, 1765-1947.Description for Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India Paperback. Includes bibliographical references and index. Originally publishd as 'An era of darkness: the British Empire in India'. 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. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation.
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. '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. Inglorious empire : what the British did to India / Shashi Tharoor Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google Books
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