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British History
Books about the history of the British Isles.
This covers non-fiction about the time period, but also fiction that is set during this time period.
This covers non-fiction about the time period, but also fiction that is set during this time period.
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Britain may have a few things to take pride in, Conan Doyle and Doctor Who to name a few - but colonialism is not one of them.
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― Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
― Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
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[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.’ I cannot presume to write on behalf of history, but as an Indian, I find it far easier to forgive than to forget.
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― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
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