An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India by Shashi Tharoor

An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India by Shashi TharoorIn 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain? s ? conscious and deliberate bleeding of India? [was the] greatest crime in all history?. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost thirty five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the British? in famines, epidemics, communal riots and wholesale slaughter like

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