![]() ![]() ![]() Tharoor uses numerous resources to prove his points and covers a wide variety of arguments. This book covers a period from the formation of the East India Company in 1600 till India gaining independence in 1947. Shashi Tharoor demolishes every “Pro” argument in favor of the British rule - from the railways to the unification of India to the rule of law - which he goes on to show how everything was designed in Britain’s interests alone. From conquest and deception, institutionalized racism, the policy of divide and rule, and total misgovernance that drew millions of Indians abject to poverty and death. This is not an academic text but an attempt to present the reality of the 200 years of British rule over India. This book is also not about British Colonialism as a whole or nor the history of British India. ![]() ![]() The book is based on the speech made by the author at Oxford when the author was invited as a speaker at the Oxford Union but the book is not his written speech. Though there are several books about the British Empire, in Inglorious Empire, Shashi Tharoor attempts to explore the devastating impact of the British Empire on India. Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British Rule in India - from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj - and reveals how Britain’s rise was built upon its the plunder of India. ![]()
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