An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (Record no. 109245)
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789383064656 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 954.03 |
| Item number | THA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tharoor, Shashi |
| 9 (RLIN) | 15891 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Aleph Book Company |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 333p |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | In 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 the reprisal killings after the 1857 War of Independence and the Amritsar massacre of 1919. Besides the deaths of Indians, British rule impoverished India in a manner that beggars belief. When the East India Company took control of the country, in the chaos that ensued after the collapse of the Mughal empire, India’s share of world GDP was 23 per cent. When the British left it was just above 3 per cent. |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Humanities and Social Science |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9370 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type | Book |
| Call number prefix | 954.03 |
| Call number suffix | THA |
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