7/4/2023 0 Comments Inglorious empire pagesĮminent Scottish historian William Dalrymple criticised the book, saying it "was written in 12 days, involved no personal archive research and contains some serious factual errors" however he maintained that the book was, nevertheless, "persuasive". Tabish Khair praised the book for presenting an "intricate mixture of fact and anecdotes" that served as an effective counter to the view of "colonial apologists" but at the same time, did praise the British, when it merited. The Guardian called it a "passionately argued book provides a crushing rebuttal of such ideas with regard to India". The Hindu Business Line called the book "one breathless read". Subsequently, his publisher floated the idea to transform the speech into a book despite being initially skeptical, he went on to write a 330 page book. Tharoor made a speech at a 2015 Oxford Union debate on the topic " Does Britain owe reparations to its former colonies?", which went viral over the web. The book has won widespread acclaim and won Tharoor the 2019 Sahitya Akademi Award and the 2017 Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award. Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, first published in India as An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, is a work of non-fiction by Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician and diplomat, on the effects of British colonial rule on India.
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