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020			_a9780141987149
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100	1		_aTharoor, Shashi _d1956- _925963
240	1	0	_aEra of darkness
245	1	0	_aInglorious empire : _bwhat the British did to India / _cShashi Tharoor
260			_aLondon : _bPenguin, _c2017
300			_axxvii, 295 pages ; _c23 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-288) and index.
505	0		_aChronology -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The Looting of India -- Did the British Give India Political Unity? -- Democracy, the Press, the Parliamentary System and the Rule of Law -- Divide Et Impera -- The Myth of the Enlightened Despotism -- The Remaining Case for Empire -- The (Im)Balance Sheet: A Coda -- The Messy Afterlife of Colonialism -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index.
520	8		_aInglorious Empire' tells the real story of the British in India from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj, revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. 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 on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" - from the railways to the rule of law -was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.
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534			_pOriginally published: _cDelhi : Aleph Book Company, ©2016, _nunder title: _tAn era of darkness : the British Empire in India.
650		0	_aImperialism _925964
651		0	_aIndia _xHistory _yBritish occupation, 1765-1947 _925965
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xForeign relations _zIndia _925966
651		0	_aIndia _xForeign relations _zGreat Britain _925967
852			_aAyesha Abed Library _cGeneral Stacks
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