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“The Indian vessels, a contemporary British observer wrote, ‘united elegance and utility and are models of patience [sic] and fine workmanship.’ Indian workers were considered expert in all shipbuilding materials—wood, iron and brass”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

“India, under Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, accounts for 27 per cent of the world economy.”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

“(it is striking that when slavery was abolished, the British government paid compensation, not to the men and women so inhumanely pressed into bondage, but to their former owners, for their ‘loss of property’!)”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

“[Ellora] is one of the finely crafted marvels of the real, transcendent Artisan [i.e., God]. —Aurangzeb describing the Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples at Ellora”
― Audrey Truschke, Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth