An Era of Darkness is an extended narrative drawn from Tharoor’s Oxford speech few years ago. In it, he discusses the effect of the British Empire on the Indian subcontinent. In it, he discusses the effect of the British Empire on the Indian subcontinent/5(K). An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India by Shashi Tharoor. Shashi Tharoor's 'An Era of Darkness' is brilliant. It is a solid extension of his Oxford Speech which had gone viral, so anyone who's interested in forming more knowledge about the British Empire in India, this book could very well be their handbook. It is enlightening, lucid and unbiased. - /5(K).
As Britain struggles with Brexit, and evokes "imperial nostalgia", Shashi Tharoor's book, "An Era of Darkness: the British Empire in India", demolishes at least three common myths. First, the myth of the beneficence of British colonialism. Then there is the notion that 18th century England was a promising model of democratic governance. "An Era of Darkness" reveals the horrors and atrocities committed by the British invaders, and how they managed to crush India from within. About Shashi Tharoor Shashi Tharoor is the author of many bestsellers, diplomat, and a politician who strives to preserve India's authority by expressing the details. Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, first published in India as An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, is a work of non-fiction by Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician and diplomat, on the effects of British colonial rule on India. The book has received mixed reviews. In , Tharoor won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in.
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 Tharoor attempts to explore the devastating. An Era of Darkness The British Empire in India Shashi Tharoor. Shashi Tharoor is the bestselling author of fifteen previous both fiction and non fiction besides being a noted critic and columnist His include the path breaking satire The Great Indian Novel the classic India From Midnight to the Millennium and most recently India Shastra Reflections on the Nation in Our Time He was a former. An Era of Darkness Quotes Showing of “The sun never set on the British empire, an Indian nationalist later sardonically commented, because even God couldn’t trust the Englishman in the dark”. ― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India. 39 likes.
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