Description: Further DetailsTitle: Inglorious EmpireCondition: NewEAN: 9780141987149ISBN: 9780141987149Publisher: Penguin Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/01/2018Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 19mmItem Weight: 247gAuthor: Shashi TharoorLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: What the British Did to IndiaISBN-10: 0141987146Description: 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 ... laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read' Financial TimesIn 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. 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 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.In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Inglorious Empire
Publication Name: Inglorious Empire
Title: Inglorious Empire
EAN: 9780141987149
ISBN: 9780141987149
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 02/01/2018
Release Year: 2018
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 19mm
Item Weight: 247g
Author: Shashi Tharoor
Language: English
Subtitle: What the British Did to India
ISBN-10: 0141987146
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History