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Inglorious Empire

- What the British Did to India
Af: Shashi Tharoor Engelsk Paperback

Inglorious Empire

- What the British Did to India
Af: Shashi Tharoor Engelsk Paperback
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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 Times

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. 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.

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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 Times

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. 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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9780141987149
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0141987146
Kategori: British Empire
Udg. Dato: 1 feb 2018
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 131mm
Højde: 196mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 1 feb 2018
Forfatter(e): Shashi Tharoor
Forfatter(e) Shashi Tharoor

Kategori British Empire

ISBN-13 9780141987149

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 131mm

Højde 196mm

Udg. Dato 1 feb 2018

Oplagsdato 1 feb 2018

Forlag Penguin Books Ltd