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Inglorious Empire

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Inglorious Empire

By Shashi Tharoor

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***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** 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 protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes...Show more

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9781849048088

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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

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2017

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Inglorious Empire

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