Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India Author: Shashi Tharoor Narrator: Shashi Tharoor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 17, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 9 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Inglorious Empire written and read by Shashi Tharoor. In 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. 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 Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's 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 Britain's stained Indian legacy.