Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

Shashi Tharoor

336 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction historical history politics informative medium-paced
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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 p...

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