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1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 34 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Shashi Tharoor. |
| Summary |
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. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalized 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 on and 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 deindustrialization 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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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East India Company -- History.
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Deindustrialization -- India -- History.
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Deindustrialization -- India -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
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India -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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India -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Tharoor, Shashi, 1956-
Era of darkness.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
What the British did to India |
| ISBN |
9781977310460 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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197731046X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12258876 |
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