The book “An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India” has been authored by Dr. Shashi Tharoor, the Lok Sabha MP. The book recalls in some detail the misdeeds of the British in looting India and making it suffer an agonizing and violent death. In it, author has rightly points out that British rule in India was effectively and regularly supplemented by famine, forced migration and brutality – the three examples of why British rule over India was despotic and anything but enlightened. The book has released by the Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari.

The Vice President said that Shri Tharoor has penned an interesting and engaging account of a period whose shadow on modern India remains disturbingly relevant.
The book recalls in some detail the misdeeds of the British in looting India and making it suffer an agonizing and violent death.