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Dr Tharoor delivers a lecture, entitled 'Looking Back at the British Raj in India', and discuses how the British Raj has shaped the narrative around India-UK relations.
The former diplomat, who is currently serving as Member of the Indian Parliament, was discussing relations between the two countries at the University's McEwan Hall on Monday 2 October – Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday.
Dr Tharoor delivers a lecture, entitled 'Looking Back at the British Raj in India', and discuses how the British Raj has shaped the narrative around India-UK relations.
The former diplomat, who is currently serving as Member of the Indian Parliament, was discussing relations between the two countries at the University's McEwan Hall on Monday 2 October – Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday.
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Who is Shashi Tharoor?Shashi Tharoor (born 1956) is an Indian politician. Tharoor is a former career international diplomat who is currently serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He also currently serves as Chairman of the
Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and All India Professionals Congress of the Indian National Congress.
What is British?British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens and diaspora of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies. British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and
nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals.
The British are a diverse, multinational, multicultural and multilingual people, with "strong regional accents, expressions and identities". The social structure of the United Kingdom has changed radically since the 19th century, with a decline in religious observance, enlargement of the middle class, and increased ethnic diversity, particularly since the 1950s, when citizens of the British Empire were encouraged to immigrate to Britain to work as part of the recovery from World War II.
The population of the UK stands at around 67 million, with around 50 million being White British. This includes 44.4 million in England and Wales as of 2021, and 4.2 million in Scotland as of 2022. 1.8 million identify as White in Northern Ireland, including White British and other White ethnicities, as of 2021.
