An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India - Shashi Tharoor Audiobook
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19th
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In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain s conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… [was the] greatest crime in all history . He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost 35 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. Besides the deaths of Indians, British rule impoverished India in a manner that beggars belief. When the East India Company took control of the country, in the chaos that ensued after the collapse of the Mughal empire, India’s share of world GDP was 23 per cent. When the British left it was just above 3 per cent. The British empire in India began with the East India Company, incorporated in 1600, by royal charter of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I, to trade in silk, spices and other profitable Indian commodities. Within a century and a half, the Company had become a power to reckon with in India. In 1757, under the command of Robert Clive, Company forces defeated the ruling Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula of Bengal at Plassey, through a combination of superior artillery and even more superior chicanery. A few years later, the young and weakened Mughal emperor, Shah Alam II, was browbeaten into issuing an edict that replaced his own revenue officials with the Company s representatives. Over the next several decades, the East India Company, backed by the British government, extended its control over most of India, ruling with a combination of extortion, double-dealing, and outright corruption backed by violence and superior force. This state of affairs continued until 1857, when large numbers of the Company s Indian soldiers spearheaded the first major rebellion against colonial rule. After the rebels were defeated, the British Crown took over…
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 3.4/5
January 16th, 2018
Many thanks.Heard a lot about this book.
January 20th, 2018
I’ve read other books of the period. Financially it was England that was bled. About 25% of all tax revenues collected in England during the time the British Empire was in India were used to subsidize the infrastructure construction and operations within India. Much of the poverty and destitution that much of the English suffered under in the 19th century was a result of this… subsidization of the development of India. Likely the author’s biases have greatly diluted his understanding of history.
February 8th, 2018
Complete rubbish.
April 12th, 2018
Why will British spend money for India? As if there were there to serve Indian. Why did so many killings of Indians. Yeah just ignore the true history and create your own, whatever suits you is the best even though it is most evil.
December 7th, 2018
The reprobate and reprehensible manner in which the two apologists for colonial tendencies are trying to defend the exigencies of the British speaks volumes about the need for re-education, en masse.
The mere suggestion that the Colonisers were in any way the reason behind the minuscule development that took place in colonized nations speaks volumes about the apathy that these fanatics have in their hearts for the browbeaten.
For all intents and purposes, they created a nation that would aid in fuelling their own development. Case in point, the systematic brutalization of all types of means of production that India was renowned for - and replacing them with their own line of products, so created on British lands.
The period of humdrum, and perceptible slowing down that you people so speak of, is not a product of developmental activities undertaken in the conquered lands; albeit, it is more due to the continued and petrifying assault that European nations were prone to undertaking on each other’s lands, as well as colonies - the most detestable amongst them being the World Wars.
The mere conjecture that any of the works undertaken by the colonizing overlords were, in any way, carried out to benefit the nation in question is one worth guffawing at. Anything and everything that the Britons did - including the laying down of Railways, the creation of schools/colleges, stipulating native infantry - was all done with a pre-deposed notion that they need to create drones to do their bidding, for the next ‘hundreds’ of years that they intend on brutally subjecting the “native barbarians” to their “civilized rule”.
February 3rd, 2019
Will Durant was correct. Money, money, money. The British military was there to do the bidding of the East India Company.
August 17th, 2020
I’m saying this as an Indian.
Based on my understanding, The British rule was better than Islamic conquest and subjugation. Mr. Tharur can’t speak about it because of his political alliances.
To to it all, All these virtue signalling chimed from a corrupt wife killing politician.
August 5th, 2021
katibi are you soft in the head?
November 14th, 2021
Pls seed
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