![]() ![]() ![]() The book starts by looking at the entry of ‘The Corporation’, East India Company, whose entry and ruthless quest for wealth of India results in the collapsing of the then ruling Mughal empire. His premise is not based on the mere ‘cruel empire’ outlook, rather to look at it in a prismatic manner, acknowledging the complexities on both sides and its various flavors in the quest for free India. The polemic takes on no particular chronology of the colonists’ entry, rather to pick the several critical socioeconomic factors that contributed to the nation’s down fall. His argument on the wrongs inflicted on the nation by the 200 years colonial empire has been carefully narrated taking the numerous British counter arguments into account. Shashi was hailed for his eloquent debate, still he thought the points he made were basic ‘Indian Nationalism 101’, later realizing they were not basic at all, even for Indians, thereby giving birth to this book as an excellent re-introduction to the topic. ![]() Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician whose debate at Oxford on ‘Why Britain owes reparations to her colonies’ became a full fledged notion unearthing the realities of colonialism in India. A book born out of a 15-minute Oxford debate lays out the scene of 200 years of colonialism in India and its breathtaking effect on the nation. ![]()
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