![]() ![]() A lot of this glamorisation has gone largely unchallenged in the popular domain. Some others offer more fatuous pronouncements, such as Lawrence James who described the British Empire was an exercise in benign altruism. I found this argument intellectually somewhat suspect as but at least had the merit of being original. For example, Professor Niall Ferguson suggests that British played the indispensable role of laying the foundations for post-colonial economies to take advantage of 21 st century globalisation. ![]() Over the last 15-20 years, there’s been a spate of very popular and well-reviewed books – best sellers in many cases – that have sought to glorify empire all over again. You write that the need to temper British nostalgia with post-colonial responsibility has never been greater than in the wake of Brexit, can you just expand on what you mean by that? ![]() While visiting LSE, he spoke to Sonali Campion about the need to challenge existing narratives about the British in India, the uniquely exploitative nature of the Raj and the legacies of Empire. Dr Shashi Tharoor was recently in the UK to promote his new book Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India. ![]()
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