![]() He examines India's experience under the yoke of Empire as Britain's economic fortunes grew and India sank under the onslaught of institutionalized plunder. Tharoor cuts through jargon, dog-eared history tomes and confounding chronology, to get to the heart of key issues, not in the dreary linear fashion favoured by historians, but with neat bundles of robust interconnected essays tinged equally with wisdom and wit. Subsequent durbars were held in 19 (the last for the coronation of King George V who visited India with Queen Mary.Īn Oxford Union debate sowed the seeds for ' An Era of Darkness - The British Empire in India' - a sweepingly erudite yet thoroughly entertaining, enlightening, and readable book, by Indian politician and writer Shashi Tharoor. The Delhi Durbar of 1877 was held on a cold January morning in Coronation Park to proclaim Queen Victoria the Empress of India. ![]()
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