An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India by Shashi Tharoor

An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

Shashi Tharoor

360 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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In 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’. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, a...

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