![]() Tharoor’s book, which took shape after his speech on the subject went viral last year, is an extensive examination of the economic and cultural damage wreaked upon India over the 200 years it was under British rule. In reviewing this book, my slight bias, of which I’m forthcoming, arises squarely from the fact that there hasn’t been anything similar that singularly deals with the Indian experience of colonization. ![]() ![]() African-Americans have been able to recount the horrors of slavery through books such as Inhuman Bondage and Many Thousands Gone, but Indians have only been served an ersatz history of the empire by apologists such as Niall Ferguson ( Empire) and Lawrence James ( The Rise and Fall of the British Empire). While much has been written about the British empire and the brutality of colonization, none of those accounts came from an Indian perspective. ![]() I have been waiting for a book like An Era of Darkness for quite some time. ![]()
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