This book should be a part of history curriculum in both British & Indian schools & Universities. 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. In today’s age of social media, when nationalism and patriotism have become almost synonymous with chest thumping jingoism, this book which has been written with unbridled passion and utmost love for the country but without sacrificing rationality, is a must-read. In Inglorious Empire, Shashi Tharoor tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britain's rise was built upon its depredations in India. Tharoor asserts India would have been a great and leading nation today had it not been for the British but this does not acknowledge the presence of other colonising forces around at the same time that would have jumped into the breach, or why it was India was unable to defend itself during this dangerous window in global history. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters and entrenched institutionalised racism. There are still far too many people in Britain who look back fondly on Empire and who have very little grasp of the real history of Empire. An extremely detailed recounting of the many ills that the British Raj brought upon India, reducing one of the world's economic superpowers (in 1750) to a bankrupt and bleeding mess (in 1947).
WOW!!! Now, this work of non-fiction is also very good. Since social self-awareness was exploding globally over the 18th and 19th centuries, it is also just as likely that India could have descended into its own civil conflict had it not been colonised, especially as the population rapidly increased. But the tenseness of his arguments in the speech at Oxford seemed to have diluted in the book. has been added to your Cart
But in doing so—with his historic ‘Kniefall von Warschau’ (Warsaw Genuflection), he was recognizing the moral responsibility of the German people, whom he led as chancellor. This is a hisrtorical narrative based on Mr Tharoor's lecture at the Oxford Union. It is true what the books says about what the British did to India, but the book does not properly mention the role that Indians played in bringing the British to power in the first place. This is a hisrtorical narrative based on Mr Tharoor's lecture at the Oxford Union. It is useful, more than 50 years after independence, to read about the reality of colonialism and the forerunner of today's global corporatism.A one-sided polemic: Get your history FROM HISTORIANS, not politicians like this!Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2019 Quite apart from his eloquence and flawless phrasing of language, Tharoor knows how to keep his audience interested, whether he is writing or speaking. And as for aid, British aid amounts to less than 0.02 per cent of India’s GDP, and somewhat less than the Government of India spends on fertilizer subsidies—an appropriate metaphor, perhaps, for the aid argument.Many pointed out that today’s Britons bore no responsibility for the transgressions of their forebears and should not be expected to bear the burden of reparations for sins in which they played no part. It is particularly important reading for teachers to give to their students, and especially for young Indian or mixed race (Indian/other) this is critical reading. But make sure you get your history FROM HISTORIANS, not politicians! Alternatively, if India’s military had not been organised over many decades by the British it is likely Japanese troops might have taken over during WW2, or earlier as it did in China. Dr Nat Khublall. It gave me an opposite view to the idea the British Raj was a good thing for India, and pointed out a number of ways it hindered Indian development. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2018 These days there appears to be a return in England to yearning for the Raj: the success of the television series Buruma was, of course, echoing what the Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie had said a few years earlier: ‘The continuing decline, the growing poverty and the meanness of spirit of much of Thatcherite Britain encourages many Britons to turn their eyes nostalgically to the lost hour of their precedence. British did not come in and impose their will on the Indians, they merely exploited the jealousy, the corruption, and the cruelty of Indians towards their own people.
These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers.This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Whoever the PM is on the centenary of that awful crime will not have been alive when the atrocity was committed, and certainly no British government of 2019 bears a shred of responsibility for that tragedy, but as a symbol of the nation that once allowed it to happen, the PM could atone for the past sins of his or her nation. Tharoor attacks each and every postulate with fatuous arguments that produce much light and sound, but hardly any substance. It reminded me a bit of “A Hymn to Him” in “My Fair Lady”:
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