![]() India that the British East India Company conquered was no primitive or barren land, but the glittering jewel of the medieval world. ![]() "Company official John Sullivan observed in the 1840s: 'The little court disappears - the capital decays - trade languishes - the capital decays - the people are impoverished - the Englishman flourishes, and acts like a sponge, drawing up riches from the banks of the Ganges, and squeezing them down upon the banks of the Thames'. The following quote summarises the core theme of the book. ![]() Subsequently, his publisher floated the idea to transform the speech into a book despite being initially skeptical, he went on to write a 330 page book. Tharoor made a speech at a 2015 Oxford Union debate on the topic " Does Britain owe reparations to its former colonies?", which went viral over the web. ![]() In 2017, Tharoor won the 2017 Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and the 2019 Sahitya Akademi Award for this work. ![]() 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. ![]()
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