An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

by Shashi Tharoor

  277he sees in Empire cause for much that is good: Ferguson, Empire, p xxv.

  277Without the spread of British rule around the planet: Ibid, p. 358.

  277The East India Company has collapsed, but globalization: Philip Pomper, ‘The History and Theory of Empires’, History and Theory, Vol. 44, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 1–27, published by Wiley for Wesleyan University. www.jstor.org/stable/3590855.

  278the liberal-capitalist ‘rise of Asia’ of which India is a contemporary epitome: Mishra, From the Ruins of Empire, p 42 et seq.

  278‘[T]he British empire was essentially a Hitlerian project on a grand scale’: Richard Gott, ‘White wash’ (book review of Ornamentalism: How the British saw their Empire by David Cannadine), The Guardian, 5 May 2001.

  280if looted Nazi-era art can be (and now is being) returned to their rightful owners: See the discussion in Erin Johnson, ‘If we return Nazi-looted art, the same goes for empire-looted,’ Aeon. www.aeon.co/ideas/if-we-return-nazi-looted-art-the-same-goes-for-empire-looted?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=oupphilosophy&utm_campaign=oupphilosophy.

  281‘if a strong man were to throw four stones’: ‘The Koh-i- noor diamond is in Britain illegally. But it should still stay there’, The Guardian, 16 February 2016.

  283Part of the legacy of colonialism is…the worldwide impact of the methods: For a searching political analysis of the Empire and its continuing implications, see two books by John Darwin, The Empire Project, London: Penguin, 2010; and Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain, London: Allen Lane, 2013.

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