Book Review: Shashi Tharoor. An Era of darkness: The British Empire in India. Aleph, 2016. (Hardcover) 333 pp. $14.77.
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Gairola, R.K.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339
(2017)
Book Review: Shashi Tharoor. An Era of darkness: The British Empire in India. Aleph, 2016. (Hardcover) 333 pp. $14.77.
South Asian Review, 38
(3).
pp. 107-110.
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Abstract
Shashi Tharoor’s An Era of Darkness is a timely and welcome study that meticulously lays out the manipulative extraction in which the Raj engaged to make India’s GDP tumble from 23 percent to 3 percent after its plunder on the subcontinent concluded with a hasty exit. While the accessible tone, minute details, and overall argument render Tharoor’s book a formidable read, at times Tharoor seems short sighted on the sheer magnitude that the racialization and sexualisation of colonized people had on so- called British subjects...
| Item Type: | Non-refereed Article |
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| Publisher: | South Asian Literary Association |
| URI: | http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52147 |
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