{"id":1149,"date":"2021-04-08T11:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drtktopecollege.in\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2021-04-19T10:54:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T05:24:22","slug":"about-the-british-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drtktopecollege.in\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"About the British Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Penguin presents the audiobook edition of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.in\/pd\/Inglorious-Empire-Audiobook\/B07B4K379R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inglorious Empire<\/a><\/em>, written and read by Shashi Tharoor.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 18th century, India&#8217;s share of the world economy was as large as Europe&#8217;s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased sixfold. The empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism and caused millions to die from starvation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial &#8216;gift&#8217; &#8211; from the railways to the rule of law &#8211; was designed in Britain&#8217;s interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain&#8217;s Industrial Revolution was founded on India&#8217;s deindustrialisation and the destruction of its textile industry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain&#8217;s stained Indian legacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a92018 Shashi Tharoor (P)2018 Penguin Books Ltd&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Penguin presents the audiobook edition of\u00a0Inglorious Empire, written and read by Shashi Tharoor.\u00a0 In the 18th century, India&#8217;s share of the world economy was as large as Europe&#8217;s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased sixfold. The empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism and caused millions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtktopecollege.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtktopecollege.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtktopecollege.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtktopecollege.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtktopecollege.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drtktopecollege.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/drtktopecollege.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtktopecollege.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtktopecollege.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtktopecollege.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}