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inglorious empire
| Author | : Shashi Tharoor |
| Editor | : Penguin Classic |
| All pages | : 288 |
| release | : 2018-02 |
| Gender | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 0141987146 |
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The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by internationally acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor. “Tharoor's impassioned polemic cuts straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires... and exposes the dire and high cost of the British Empire to its former subjects. Essential reading' Financial Times In the 18th century, India's share of the world economy was as large as that of Europe. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had increased sixfold. The Empire blew up rebels with cannon fire, massacred unarmed protesters, established institutionalized racism and starved millions. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism in favor of the ruled, but Shashi Tharoor demolishes that position, demonstrating how every so-called imperial 'gift' - from railways to the rule of law - has been designed solely in Britain's interest. Brittany. It further shows how Britain's Industrial Revolution was based on the deindustrialization of India and the destruction of its textile industry. In this bold and incisive reappraisal of colonialism, Tharoor exposes with devastating effect the shameful reality of Britain's battered Indian heritage.
imperial twilight
| Author | : Stephen R. Platt |
| Editor | : Alt |
| All pages | : 594 |
| release | : 2019-04-23 |
| Gender | : Story |
| ISBN | : 9780345803023 |
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As China regains its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the last era of the country's rise and its end in the 19th century Opium War. One of the most powerful turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War represents all that China wants to leave behind today. In this dramatic and epic tale, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open up” China, even as China's imperial rulers struggled to manage their country's decline and Confucian scholars bickered over it How to use foreign trade to China's advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable and mostly peaceful assemblage of civilizations that was destined to be torn apart by one of the most horrific unfair wars in Empire history. Filled with fascinating British, Chinese and American characters, this compelling tale of China-West relations has important implications for today's ever-changing and uncertain political climate.
an age of darkness
| Author | : Shashi Tharoor |
| Editor | : Rupa Releases |
| All pages | : 333 |
| release | : 2016 |
| Gender | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 938306465X |
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In 1930, American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's "conscious and deliberate bleeding out of India...was [the] greatest crime in history". He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Nearly thirty-five million Indians died as a result of British acts and omissions, famine, epidemics, communal unrest and mass killings such as the retaliatory killings after the 1857 War of Independence and the Amritsar massacre of 1919. In addition to Indian deaths, the British government has India on incredibly impoverished. When the East India Company took control of the country amid the chaos that followed the collapse of the Mughal Empire, India's share of world GDP was 23 percent. When the British withdrew, it was just over 3 percent. The British Empire in India began with the East India Company, established by a royal charter from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I in 1600 to trade in silk, spices and other profitable Indian goods. In a century and a half, the company had become a force to be reckoned with in India. In 1757 the Company's troops, commanded by Robert Clive, defeated the Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula ruler of Bengal at Plassey by a combination of superior artillery and even more superior cunning. A few years later, the young and ailing Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II was pushed to issue an edict replacing his own tax officials with company officials. Over the next few decades, the British government-backed East India Company expanded its control over most of India, ruling with a combination of blackmail, double entender and blatant corruption, backed by violence and superior force. This state of affairs lasted until 1857, when large numbers of the Company's Indian soldiers led the first major rebellion against colonial rule. After the rebels were defeated, the British Crown took power and ruled the country in a seemingly benign manner until India gained independence in 1947. In this explosive book, best-selling author Shashi Tharoor reveals with insight, impeccable research and characteristic wit how disastrous British rule was for India. In addition to examining the many ways in which the colonizers exploited India, ranging from depleting Britain's national resources to destroying India's textile, steel and shipping industries and negatively transforming agriculture, the arguments of Western and Indian apologists are discussed refuted for Empire over the supposed benefits of British rule, including democracy and political liberty, the rule of law and the railways. The few undisputed advantages (English language, tea and cricket) were never really intended for the benefit of the colonized but were instituted to serve the interests of the colonizers. Brilliantly told and passionately argued, An Era of Darkness will serve to correct many misconceptions about one of the most controversial periods in Indian history.
inglorious empire
| Author | : Shashi Tharoor |
| Editor | : Write us |
| All pages | : 336 |
| release | : 2018-05-08 |
| Gender | : Story |
| ISBN | : 1947534300 |
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“Shashi Tharoor reveals with insight, impeccable research and characteristic wit how disastrous British rule was for India. In addition to examining the many ways in which the colonizers exploited India, from the depletion of British national resources, the destruction of India's textile, steel and maritime industries, and the negative transformation of agriculture, refutes the arguments of Western and Indian Empire apologists about the alleged Benefits of British rule including democracy and political liberty, constitutional law and railways. The few undisputed advantages (the English language, tea, and cricket) were never really intended for the benefit of the colonized, but were instituted to serve the interests of the colonizers.
Koh i Noor
| Author | : William DalrympleAnita Anand |
| Editor | : Bloomsbury Publishing EE. UU. |
| All pages | : 352 |
| release | : 2017-09-12 |
| Gender | : Story |
| ISBN | : 9781635570779 |
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From bestselling and internationally acclaimed historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authorized history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the world's most famous gemstone. On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh Kingdom of Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Hall of Mirrors at the center of the British fort in Lahore, India. There, in a formal act of submission, the frightened but dignified boy gave the British East India Company parts of India's richest land and the subcontinent's most prized object: the famous Koh-i-Noor Diamond, also known as the Mountain of Light. To celebrate the takeover, the British East India Company commissioned a history of the diamond, woven from the gossip of Delhi's bazaars. From then on, the Koh-i-Noor became the most famous and mythological diamond in history, with thousands coming to see it at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and thousands more repeating the largely fictionalized account of its passage through history. Using original eyewitness accounts and chronicles never before translated into English, Dalrymple and Anand trace the diamond's true story and dispel the myths and fantastical tales that have long surrounded this stunning gemstone. The resulting story of South and Central Asia tells a true story of greed, conquest, murder, torture, colonialism and appropriation that shaped a continent and Koh-i-Noor itself.
The colonel who has not repented
| Author | : Salil Tripathi |
| Editor | : Yale University Press |
| All pages | : 408 |
| release | : 2016-04-26 |
| Gender | : Story |
| ISBN | : 9780300221022 |
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Bangladesh was once East Pakistan, the Muslim nation carved out of the Indian subcontinent when it gained independence from Britain in 1947. With religion alone unable to hold East Pakistan and West Pakistan together, Bengali-speaking East Pakistan fought for liberation, which was successful in 1971. Coups and assassinations followed, and two decades later it completed its long and tumultuous transition to parliamentary rule. Its history is complex and tragic: war, natural disasters, hunger, corruption and political instability. Salil Tripathi's beautifully crafted and lyrical tale of the difficult birth and contradictory politics of this cursed land, first published in India by the Aleph Book Company, has received international critical acclaim and his reporting has won a Mumbai Award from the Press Club Red Ink . for excellence in journalism. The Colonel Who Refused is an insightful study of a nation struggling to survive and define itself.
If
| Author | : Shashi Tharoor |
| Editor | : arcade release |
| All pages | : 428 |
| release | : 2006 |
| Gender | : Story |
| ISBN | : 1559708034 |
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One of India's leading writers assesses the country's achievements and failures over the past fifty years since independence from British rule and emphasizes India's relevance to the challenges America faces in the 21st century. imprint.
British Empire
| Author | : Richard Got |
| Editor | : books verse |
| All pages | : 577 |
| release | : 2022-01-04 |
| Gender | : Story |
| ISBN | : 9781839764226 |
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A masterful tale of resistance to the rise of the British Empire As the call for a new understanding of our national history grows, the British Empire is turning inherited imperial history on its head. Richard Gott tells the long-ignored tale of resisters, revolutionaries and rebels who opposed the power of empire. The crimes of Britain from the early 18th century to the Indian Mutiny unfold in a history of almost uninterrupted colonial violence that spans the globe from Ireland to Australia. God captures events from the perspective of the colonized and uncovers the almost forgotten stories left out of the main stories.