The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on Indias experience of British colonialism, by the internationallyacclaimed author and diplomat Shashi TharoorTharoors impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ... laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read Financial TimesIn the eighteenth century, Indias share of the world economy was as large as Europes. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased sixfold. 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 demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial gift from the railways to the rule of law was designed in Britains interests alone. He goes on to show how Britains Industrial Revolution was founded on Indias 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 Britains stained Indian legacy.

Binding: Paperback;336 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: HBJD1; Weight: 372 g; Dimensions: 196 x 131 x 20

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