I also feel both informed and disappointed at the same time. Thoroughly enjoyed this book, I had never known this side of the story regarding England's relationship with India during its colonial days. The book just doesn’t add up with all of the other knowledge I have accumulated on my travels and research, which leaves me to conclude it is nothing but a simplistic story for political popularism. Furthermore on my travels through India, I saw that the same problems still exist in India, as control has simply passed from the British to a high caste elite, who live in wealthy cantonments whilst life for many hasn’t changed a great deal. This narrative is simply contrary to the accounts of the vast majority of other works on the subject and isn’t helped by a particularly spiteful tone, spoken from a moral high ground which the author clearly has not earnt with his many controversies and elitism in Indian public life. However, I was put off the book by the simplistic glorification of India pre and post British rule and that most of the book refers to favorable works, supporting the ideas of the author, which are also the narrative pushed by the Congress Party for whom he is an MP.
There is no doubt that the vast majority of the inhumane and cruel actions mentioned in this book did indeed occur and should be condemned by all.
I listened to this book whilst traveling in India and fully expected to sympathize with the overall consensus of a cruel imperial rule of India. The unbalanced view of a nationalist politician
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