India and the British Empire

India and the British Empire
Author: Douglas M. Peers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199259887

Essays by leading historians from around the world combine to create a timely and authoritative assessment of a number of the major themes in the history of modern South Asia.

Inglorious Empire

Inglorious Empire
Author: Shashi Tharoor
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780141987149

Inglorious Empire' tells the real story of the British in India from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj, revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. 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 cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised 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 deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.

The Economy of Modern India

The Economy of Modern India
Author: B. R. Tomlinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-04-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107021189

A unique examination of the development of the modern Indian economy over the past 150 years.