Inglorious Empire
What the British Did to India

Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British Rule in India — from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj — and reveals how Britain’s rise was built upon its the plunder of India. Though there are several books about the British Empire, in Inglorious Empire, Shashi T......more

"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." I believe this is a one-line summary of the "Brutish" Raj that Tharoor talks about in this book. (And it is quite ironic that this quote was written by an Englishmen only !) An Era of Darkness is about the sordid system of misrule that fractur......more

I'm generally sympathetic to the argument that colonialism is over and done with and there's no need to keep grievance mongering over past events. But a raft of recent nostalgic scholarship by Niall Ferguson and others has unfortunately brought the issue of British colonialism in India up for debate......more

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. Undoubtedly, some beneficial aspects had been bestowed on the country from the alien rule, but there is universal consensus that o......more