“The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.”
Dr Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician, writer, and former diplomat. Before joining Indian politics, Dr. Tharoor worked for nearly three decades at the UN, serving as a peacekeeper, refugee worker, and administrator at the highest levels. Since 2009, he has served as a Congress Party MP in India.
He is the author of dozens of books that span politics, history, fiction, literary criticism, and more. His bestselling book Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India won critical acclaim for exposing the devastating effects of British rule in India and challenging the myth that British imperialism was driven by anything other than naked self-interest.
"Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ... laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects." — Financial Times