Shashi Tharoor 
Inglorious Empire [EPUB ebook] 
what the British did to India

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Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India – from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj – and reveals 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.In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain s stained Indian legacy.

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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 336 ● ISBN 9781925548518 ● Editora Scribe Publications Pty Ltd ● Publicado 2017 ● Carregável 3 vezes ● Moeda EUR ● ID 6661127 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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