Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

Synopsis

The sunday times top 10 bestseller on india's experience of british colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat shashi tharoor'tharoor's 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, 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.