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Inglorious Empire

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

Inglorious Empire

- What the British Did to India
Af: Shashi Tharoor Engelsk Hardback
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***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** 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. Beyond conquest and deception, 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 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. 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 TEN BESTSELLER*** 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. Beyond conquest and deception, 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 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. 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: 288
ISBN-13: 9781849048088
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1849048088
Kategori: India
Udg. Dato: 2 mar 2017
Længde: 32mm
Bredde: 140mm
Højde: 216mm
Forlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 2 mar 2017
Forfatter(e): Shashi Tharoor
Forfatter(e) Shashi Tharoor

Kategori India

ISBN-13 9781849048088

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 32mm

Bredde 140mm

Højde 216mm

Udg. Dato 2 mar 2017

Oplagsdato 2 mar 2017

Forlag C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

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