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An era of darkness : the British empire In India by Shashi Tharoor is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 thirty-five 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 fo
Who reads An era of darkness : the British empire In India?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Shashi Tharoor
- Publisher
- Aleph Book Company; Rupa Publications; Aleph
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789383064656
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.23 / 5 (875 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14