Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from 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.
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. Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-288) and index. Originally published as 'An era of darkness: the British Empire in India'. Tharoor brilliantly depicts the impacts of British colonial rule on the Indian economy, polity and.Inglorious empire : what the British did to India / Shashi Tharoor.
The book is a continuation of the debate that occurred in in the Oxford Union on the extent to which 'Britain owes reparations to her former colonies.' However, the author shifts his focus in the book from reparations to colonial impacts. Even though it does not make any new arguments or add value to the existing nationalist literature, Tharoor's 'ferocious and astonishing' writing distinguishes it from others. Its popularity as one of the Sunday Times top ten bestsellers shows the wide and enthusiastic acceptance of this book. Inglorious Empire, which was published in India in 2016 under the title An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, a brilliant work by Shashi Tharoor, is distinguished among this literature in its manner of presentation and dazzling arguments.
Even though there is plenty of literature about the looting and brutality of the colonial powers, most of this has gone unnoticed among the academic community. Such narrations portray colonial rule as an inevitable and progressive stage in the economic, political and social development of Asian and African countries. The dominance of European scholars and a Euro-centric framework in social sciences, including history, has both stemmed from and perpetuated ignorance about the perspectives and feelings of colonized people in writing about the colonial period. Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
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