![]() ![]() It left me wondering why Indians are generally so well disposed towards their former imperial mistress. It makes very uncomfortable reading for Brits, especially those like me who had a parent brought up partly in India. The book is savagely critical of 200 years of the British in India. ![]() So argues Inglorious Empire, a remarkable new book by the Indian MP Shashi Tharoor, a former candidate for secretary general of the United Nations who is being touted as a potential leader of the Congress Party. It still represented one quarter of the world economy when Britain began to conquer it in 1757.Īnd it was we British who impoverished it. ![]() It was the world’s economic superpower when imperial Rome and Han China were its junior trading partners. Britain once destroyed India’s economy yet we can still be friendsīy 2022, India will have overtaken China to become the most populous country in the world and, growing fast, will be rapidly returning towards the dominant position it held in the world economy for centuries. ![]()
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