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A review by rishabsomani
An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor
5.0
I am, personally, not a big fan of Shashi Tharoor and his political career but this book shines through with his academic brilliance and encapsulating writing style.
Every Indian is aware of the injustices inflicted upon them by our colonial masters, but Tharoor shows what the British Raj did in such astonishing factual detail that one is left seething with anger. Tharoor shows how systematically and brutally the British fucked us over and the vastness of their fuckery.
The British had left us 72 years ago, but the barriers they've created still haunt us to this day. The Hindu-Muslim divide, the caste politics, and the Victorian-era Indian Penal Code that cause problems today are all givings of this barbarous empire.
I feel that this book should be inculcated in every Indian school curriculum so that every kid revels in our rich pre-colonial heritage and is angered by the madness that ensued after it.
Every Indian is aware of the injustices inflicted upon them by our colonial masters, but Tharoor shows what the British Raj did in such astonishing factual detail that one is left seething with anger. Tharoor shows how systematically and brutally the British fucked us over and the vastness of their fuckery.
The British had left us 72 years ago, but the barriers they've created still haunt us to this day. The Hindu-Muslim divide, the caste politics, and the Victorian-era Indian Penal Code that cause problems today are all givings of this barbarous empire.
I feel that this book should be inculcated in every Indian school curriculum so that every kid revels in our rich pre-colonial heritage and is angered by the madness that ensued after it.