![]() ![]() One can sense that he is trying to avoid the blaming of imperial powers for everything that is wrong in post-colonial nations as if they did not bear responsibility as well, and he is also conscious of the failures of India with regards to economic development that it bears responsibility for, even as the the author finds much to blame in rapacious corporate imperialism during the period of the rule of the British East India Company. Once one takes away the dross from the author’s argument, there is at least something of worth to be found here, if it is couched in terms that are not well expressed on the part of the author. Inside this book there are decent arguments to be made against the British imperialism system, but combined with this there are some arguments that simply don’t hold up (the author’s hostility to biblical morality and to Christianity in general is unseemly and detracts from the worth of his argument). ![]() Although this book is not extremely long, and it is in fact an expansion of the author’s talk in which he argued against British needs to pay reparation over its imperialism, this book is in fact too long to fulfill the author’s purposes. There is an audience for this book, but I am not a part of that audience. Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India, by Shashi Tharoor ![]()
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