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# The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India Hardcover – 25 October 2016

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Educates, in a Limited Way
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 21 May 2017*

I finished ploughing through this 500 page book yesterday. The primary hypothesis the author seeks to prove is that the British rule was sustained by violence and authority as opposed to the earlier Mughal period characterized by negotiations and intricate support networks within rural and urban society. This is supposed to counter the romanticist’s version of the British time as a period of order. However, this is a fringe and ill-founded view, at least among Indians. The author has devoted many needless pages to prove why pursuit of prestige and dominance was the sole justification the British had in their own eyes for their India empire. This is a given, and is by and large true for all imperialistic enterprises and not much is gained by seeking to prove this. However, often times military conquest by foreign powers does introduce changes in society which would not be possible otherwise, or come too slowly. So while the British introduced many changes to improve the exercise of their authority, those changes had unintended positive spin-offs. The author has completely ignored this aspect.The second issue I take with the book is the glittering account of Mughal times, even including a whitewash/explaining away of Aurangzeb's excesses. Towards the end of the book, this treatment is extended to Jinnah's communal politics by positing an equivalence between the communal demands of the League and the inclusive agenda of the Congress. However, when I see references to the JNU and Aligarh 'eminent historians' in the book, it is to be expected that there will be a complete glossing over of religious motives for Muslim kings and politicians.In the final analysis, if you limit yourself to proving a point, you will find enough corroborative evidence and can always leave out whatever does not fit your theory. This is a lawyer's method that is adopted by so many historians now. Can these historians lift their gaze over the sweep of history and paint an integral picture?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An eye-opener for the Empire Apologists and those like me brought up on a diet of how the ...
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 13 January 2017*

An eye-opener for the Empire Apologists and those like me brought up on a diet of how the British Empire cleansed India of "brutal" Moghuls,  Perfidious Martha's and vain and spendthrift sundry rulers,  of how they eliminated the Thugs,  Sati and "criminal tribes".  This book chronicles how the rapacious British destroyed a well ordered flourishing  society and replaced it with a poverty-stricken one beholden to the new rulers whose sole concern was generation of revenue even at the cost of mass starvation and deaths during famines.  Opened my eyes. A must read for every Indian and for that matter every Briton.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An average book
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 17 December 2016*

The book is brilliant at some places and less than ordinary at others. I felt there are many unconnected accounts that do not gel with the main theme. These should have been avoided. Often there is some unnecessary detail that makes the reading boring and tiresome. Nonetheless a nice book to have a feel of how the Raj took over reigns of India and how they progressed.

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