Новинки Шаши Тхарура
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Inglorious Empire. What the British Did to India Шаши Тхарур
ISBN: 978-0-14-198714-9 Год издания: 2019 Издательство: Penguin The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor 'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ... laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read' Financial Times In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused…
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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India Шаши Тхарур
ISBN: 9781849048088 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: C Hurst & Co Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India — from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj — and reveals how Britain’s rise was built upon its plunder of India. In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but…
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Bookless in Baghdad: Reflections on Writing and Writers Shashi Tharoor
ISBN: 1559707577 Год издания: 2005 Язык: Русский Book Description'A fluid and powerful writer, one of the best in a generation of Indian authors' (New York Times Book Review), Shashi Tharoor, the acclaimed author of six books, all published by Arcade, is once again at his provocative best. -
The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor
ISBN: 0140120491, 978-0140120493 Год издания: 1990 Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd Язык: Английский A fictionalized account of Indian history over the past 100 years. It aims to remain true to the original events, including characters such as Gandhi and Mountbatten but it also utilizes characters, incidents and issues from the Indian epic, the Mahabharata.