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Your Silence Will Not Protect You Essays La continua explotación de los recursos y los pobladores de la India,que tenían una avanzada cultura cuando llegaron los inglese está detalladamente expuesta en este libro. In Inglorious Empire, Shashi Tharoor tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britain's rise was built upon its depredations in India. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. A solid summary of the arguments against the supposed "benefits" of British Imperial rule of India from the mid 18th to mid 20th centuries. The book contains a lot of documented information that is not at all widely known. Und lässt eine warme Zusammenarbeit mit dem Brexit-zerzausten Britannien erwarten. Tharoor asserts India would have been a great and leading nation today had it not been for the British but this does not acknowledge the presence of other colonising forces around at the same time that would have jumped into the breach, or why it was India was unable to defend itself during this dangerous window in global history.
Really well written, not an attack on the British just an account of events. To list a few...A must read for those of us who do not believe that Britain is wonderful. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. You only have to read the British history of social development of the same period to see the same perpetrators of India’s miseries were doing the same thing at home by creating population movement, class consciousness and divisions, as well as causing untold privations through scientifically unsupported policies that were based on ‘thinkers’ such as Thomas Malthus and Jeremy Bentham. Price £17.40 RRP £20.00. The subtitle says it all: "What the British Did To India." This is not an easy book because it documents so much suffering and malfeasance, but it is well-written and extremely persuasive. In Inglorious Empire, Shashi Tharoor tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britain's rise was built upon its depredations in India. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote.
It reminded me a bit of “A Hymn to Him” in “My Fair Lady”:
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Old habits die hard. They desire to be an emotionless onlooker give cold hard facts. It is true what the books says about what the British did to India, but the book does not properly mention the role that Indians played in bringing the British to power in the first place. Under the British, millions died from starvation--including 4 million in 1943 alone, after national hero Churchill diverted Bengal's food stocks to the war effort.
Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. No es frecuente en Occidente ver editados libros sobre la época colonial inglesa en India que escapen de la visión romántica de los oficiales de caballería cargando contra los malvados rebeldes nativos o bailando valses en Darjeeling,como se presenta el Raj en el reciente libro de David Gilmour. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Wir lesen eben englische Presse. Nickname. There's no question that British rule in India was shameful, brutal, incompetent and driven by appalling avarice.
At least, lip service is paid to other significant factors but the main emphasis is centred on the greed of the British, what they took out of India, how little was left behind after decolonisation, and how the British created a generation of Indian ‘apologists’ who are apparently largely responsible for any poor decision making following independence. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed. Well researched and has brought to light key issues that still need to be resolved between Britain and India. Good luck! Brutal display of arguments against the notion of the British colonial period in India as a civilising mission.
This book will definitely make you woke. And, just as importantly, it shows why national myth-making leads unsuspecting citizens into very dangerous intellectual and emotional territory.
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