The first and primary target was the local newspapers which had to put up considerable deposits to continue their work. It was then that he made the following astounding statement: "...you know, of all the European countries that colonized the world - France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Britain - it was only the English who did so with the aim to modernize and develop those backward nations. Prior to British reign, Indian textiles and other goods were in high demand throughout the world. Published
Oh, how very needed is this work!It is as much a pleasure to read Shashi Tharoor as it is to hear him speak. Shashi Tharoor, former UN bureaucrat, politician, former minister in Manmohan Singh’s cabinet and writer, presents a postmortem examination of the colonial rule. 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. The book redeemed itself. While a lot of arguments and cases in discussions seemed (and very well could be) biased and hypocritical,While a lot of arguments and cases in discussions seemed (and very well could be) biased and hypocritical,The author provides passionate rebuttals to the traditional histories of all the good things England did for it's appreciative colonies. The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. The book understates the fact how only a fraction of amount that the British earned from the repressive taxes was put back to the Indian economy and how Britian’s economy flourished at the expense of India. An Area of Darkness is a book written by V. S. Naipaul in 1964. End of an Era is the tenth chapter of The Darkness II. Shashi Tharoor with his speech at Oxford had set high expectations from this book. by Aleph Book Company When Britain left, her share was down to 3%. Tharoor is never short of adjectives.
Now as for the history well there are mentions of historical events and personages but they are only to the extent they demonstrate or support the point the author is making so there is a great deal of information lacking. The teacher to student learning method was also highly popular among Indians, regardless of the cultural diversity in the country. This book is an impassioned tirade against the injustices perpetrated by the British Raj durng their rule of India. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. This book documents horrors upon horrors. Even those that managed to push their way through the obstacles were cast aside by the system and positioned in the lower tiers of Indo-British society. Start by marking “An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India” as Want to Read: Shashi Tharoor's books never disappoint me . The author states up front that the idea for this book came from a presentation he made at Oxford during a debate regarding whether or not the British owed India reparations for all the harm they did to that country during the colonial occupation. Most westerners believe that Indian clans, regions, or provincial kingdoms were united thanks to Britain. !Shashi Tharoor's books never disappoint me . For another, An Era of Darkness renders yeoman’s service to the entire subject of India’s colonial encounters by comprehensively rubbishing most of … My main argument was that imperialism brought in law and order amid anarchy in states, permitted less violent form of political competition and arguably brought parliamentary democracy, rule of law and political unity among the colonial states. The battle for interest is a part of our subconscious mind, and many Empires such as the British one, took things too far by fully depriving the conquered people of its belongings and rights. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the British—in famines, epidemics, communal riots and wholesale slaughter like the reprisal killings after the 1857 War of Independence and the Amritsar massacre of 1919. It is probably not all that surprising, because, even eminent modern-day British economists and historians like Niall Ferguson and Lawrence James have recently written books, extolling the 'good' of British colonialism and pronouncing that it was ultimately a positive force in the world. Quite apart from his eloquence and flawless phrasing of language, Tharoor knows how to keep his audience interested, whether he is writing or speaking. Does it always ?As the world slept, India awoke to light and freedom on a summer night in 1947 after reeling under two centuries of British rule and seven centuries of Islamic hegemony. But in terms of arguments, I found a few well known strong arguments along with a number of weaker ones.