Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. !Shashi Tharoor's books never disappoint me . He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India 4.16 avg rating — 6,658 ratings — published 2000 — 24 editions Want to Read saving…
Shashi Tharoor, former UN bureaucrat, politician, former minister in Manmohan Singh’s cabinet and writer, presents a postmortem examination of the colAs the world slept, India awoke to light and freedom on a summer night in 1947 after reeling under two centuries of British rule and seven centuries of Islamic hegemony. Shashi Tharoor's books never disappoint me . It is said that monks would hand-copy documents and books which would then become part of private collections of individual scholars. Shashi Tharoor gave a well received speech on the impact of the colonial project on India at Oxford a few years back, and this book is an attempt to capture the spirit of that speech in written form. Does it always ?There is a much-touted phrase "Truth lies somewhere in d middle." Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by theIn 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain’s ‘conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… [was the] greatest crime in all history’. In An Era of Darkness, consummate debater and author Shashi Tharoor recreates the British Raj with all its horrors and also elucidates the awe-inspiring struggle of India's freedom fighters. Shashi Tharoor has 36 books on Goodreads with 47936 ratings. (and his message for you, the fan? November 15th 2016 The author states up front that the idea for this book came from a presentation he made at Oxford during a debate regarding whether or not the British owed India reparations for all the harm they did to that country during the colonial occupation. But one thing that keeps him at the edge is the deep recognition of facts and the courage to speak it out on a national and international platform.
Everything he states is well-referenced fact.
What is surprising is-or, on reflection, perhaps not, is as greater a orator as Tharoor is, his writing style, although well-researched and engaging, is didactic and lacks the elegance of his vocal abilities; some of his puns lose their verve without the cadence of his voice, some of his homilies became slightly platitudinous but, with that being said, “Inglorious Empire” is one of the greatest rebuttals of empire I have read, a welcome rampant against the torrent of misplaced colonial nostalgia which seems to be washing over parts of England.The speech delivered at Oxford that led to writing of this book was a brilliant one but the book itself fades in comparison. The book understates the fact how only a fraction of amount that the British earned from the repressive taxes was put back to the Indian economy and how Britian’s economy flourished at the expense of India.
This trifecta, which India retains and has continued to develop in its own ways, existed in the colonial era, but with significant distortions, and is therefore worth examining.”
“At the beginning of the century, Ruskin declared that ‘every mutiny, every danger, every terror, and every crime, occurring under, or paralyzing, our Indian legislation, arises directly out of our national desire to live on the loot of India’.” It was ironic, said Bryan, that British rule was sought to be justified on the grounds that ‘it keeps the people from killing each other, and the plague praised because it removes those whom the Government has saved from slaughter!’.”
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