TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tharoor, Shashi
TI  - An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India 
SN  - 9789383064656
U1  - 954.03 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Aleph Book Company
KW  - Humanities and Social Science
N1  - 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
ER  -