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through looting, expropriation – and outright theft – all conducted in a spirit of deep racism and amoral cynicism.’ One man's blistering critique of our colonialist past by one of the world’s leading diplomats. Shashi Tharoor, now an Indian MP, has just published his latest book on the iniquities of the British Empire. And its themes have echoes today.
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Indian MP Shashi Tharoor talks to Jon Snow on Channel 4 News about British colonial misdeeds and their echoes today. Subscribe for more identity politics: bit.ly/LtASif. ‘Britain destroyed Indiathrough looting, expropriation – and outright theft – all conducted in a spirit of deep racism and amoral cynicism.’ One man's blistering critique of our colonialist past by one of the world’s leading diplomats. Shashi Tharoor, now an Indian MP, has just published his latest book on the iniquities of the British Empire. And its themes have echoes today.
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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.
Who are Channel 4?Channel 4 is a British public-service free-to-air television network headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It began transmission on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned. The station is now
owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and the single commercial broadcasting network ITV.
What is Colonial?Colonialism is the policy of a foreign polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories. This is generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the
colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics, religion, and health.
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.
