Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Chapterised) - Shashi Tharoor Audiobook

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  jongee445
  May 22nd, 2018
  

  I detect a butthurt minority

  Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Chapterised) - Shashi Tharoor
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  caesar963
  May 22nd, 2018
  

  I have to admit to being in that particular minority/majority, jongee. The British Empire was a force for great evil and we should call such evil by its proper name, whether it be manifested in the Soviet, Nazi or any other empire.

  Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Chapterised) - Shashi Tharoor
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  granular
  May 22nd, 2018
  

  Buthurt I’d say.. Not only did they have to give up on their global empire, they’re poised to lose half the bloody island to the Scots.
  The way it’s going pretty soon the queen will be paying the Welsh just so her kid could still keep SOME kinda title.

  Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Chapterised) - Shashi Tharoor
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  loken40k
  May 22nd, 2018
  

  Before you go calling The British Empire Evil - just stop to think
  The freedoms you have now. Would we have had this freedom under Nazi Germany or Imperial Japanese Empire had the British Empire not been able to bring people from all over the world to fight a TRUE EVIL - the Nazi’s & Japanese, we would be living in a far different world.

  The British Empire was far from perfect - it definitely had its darker parts, but ultimately if it was truly evil why would India continue to use the democratic, legal, language to this day. Why is it that 3/4 of the commonwealth countries are democracies.

  Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Chapterised) - Shashi Tharoor
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  caesar963
  May 22nd, 2018
  

  I use the word ‘evil’ advisedly. I don’t use it as common abuse. Many of those former colonies are democracies in name only, without the essential rights which flow from such a state. Several of them have the death penalty for homosexuals, for instance.
  The Nazi and Japanese empires were undoubtedly evil, and courageously combatted by the democracies. But the Germans were finally defeated by the equally evil Soviet empire.
  Under British rule, over 60 million Indians were killed by Famine.
  My own country experienced a devastating famine under British Imperial rule.
  This does not include all the millions of murders resulting from colonial repression.
  The point is, if you’re murdered by Nazi, Soviet or British imperialism, the result is the same, you’re just as dead.
  The colonised people were “freed” from their lives, as it were.

  Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Chapterised) - Shashi Tharoor
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  EleintSlayer
  May 22nd, 2018
  

  Lets just all take a minute and compromise: The Roman Empire was evil. The Mogul Empire was evil. The British Empire was evil. Napoleon was evil. All The European Empires were evil. The Mongol Empire was evil. The Persian Empire was evil. Hitler was evil. The Soviets were evil. The Japanese Empire was evil.

  Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Chapterised) - Shashi Tharoor
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  caesar963
  May 22nd, 2018
  

  Well done, Eleint, both comprehensive and all-encompassing. However, many people and institutions in Britain would violently disagree with you. They would argue that their genocidal and rapacious empire was a potent force for good in the world. That with each famine the barbaric races were civilised.
  Important also to recall that the British empire was for slavery before they were against it. They enjoyed a thriving slave trade, built cities and an Industrial Revolution on the “back” of it.
  Every cloud, eh?
  Destructive Partition; Stripping resources; Spreading and indoctrinating racism; Penal Laws; Inequality before the Law; Tyrannous taxation to pay for War; State Terrorism -
  What did the British Empire ever do for us, what?

  Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Chapterised) - Shashi Tharoor
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  iraqois
  May 26th, 2018
  

  I suppose it’s still better than eating your neighbours, throwing a dead man’s wife on the funeral pyre or ritualised torture. The British Empire brought law, order and peace to large swathes of the world. We’d be a lot worse off without Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, India, Canada, the USA and many other countries. All these places owe their success to the British Empire. For the Spanish equivalent just look at South America. It’s trendy to bash the British Empire but the very freedom to protest against it is due to the common law provided by the empire. Try that in Iran or under the nazis or Japanese or Russians and see what happens.

  Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Chapterised) - Shashi Tharoor
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  Gort1951
  May 20th, 2020
  

  Its amazing the prejudice and ignorance of people extolling the ‘virtues’ of imperialist colonialism still persists. I shall leave it to Lord Macaulay’s address to British parliament on 2nd February 1835 to make you all blush with a little shame for your hypocrisy. He said: “I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief, such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber that i do not think we would ever conquer this country unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage and therefore i propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation”. As for how grateful indians should be for being dispersed around the world as a disaspora I would remind you that the largest volunteer army the world has ever seen came form India in both the first and second world wars - those Indian soldiers lie dead in far off fields for your sake. India did not become free in 1945 but had to wait until 1947 as Churchill did his best to cling onto to it. None of you would accept imperialist domination - look how you cry at European connectivity - but you expect those of the brown skin to be happy with his white master. You’ll be telling me African Americans should be grateful to slavery (including British) because at least now they are in the wets and not living in Africa. racist twats.

  Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Chapterised) - Shashi Tharoor
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  SolidarityForever
  March 14th, 2021
  

  read the book you windbags

  Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Chapterised) - Shashi Tharoor
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  TempMan2510
  July 27th, 2024
  

  Please seed. :)

  Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Chapterised) - Shashi Tharoor

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