![]() ![]() In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain’s stained Indian legacy. He goes on to show how Britain’s Industrial Revolution was founded on India’s deindustrialization, and the destruction of its textile industry. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation.īritish 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. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. ![]() The subtitle says it all: 'What the British Did To India. ![]() In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. 'Inglorious Empire' is a detailed, fact-based corrective to the romantic, 'kindly sahib' vision of the long British involvement in India, from the early days of the East India Company to the establishment, and then the collapse of, the Raj. Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India and reveals how Britain’s rise was built upon its plunder of India. ![]()
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