Quote by Shashi Tharoor Download Open image ““Brutish’ as an acceptable substitute for ‘British’ rule in India!”” — Shashi Tharoor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“As I was typing this last sentence, somewhat hastily, my computer’s spellcheck offered ‘Brutish’ as an acceptable substitute for ‘British’ rule in India!” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“The British ruled nineteenth-century India with unshakeable self-confidence, buttressed by protocol, alcohol and a lot of gall.” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India. — Lala Lajpat Rai Copy Share Image
In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this… — Syama Prasad Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“six decades of Independence have wrought significant change, as exposure to British practices has faded and India’s natural boisterousness has reasserted itself. Some of… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“control. The people’s character is deliberately debased, their mind is denationalized and perpetually kept in ignorance and fed with stories of England’s greatness and… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power:… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“On election days, the burdens of poverty and corruption and of a creaky economic system are put aside, and India celebrates. Many voters dress… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal. But I seek nothing from history—only an account of itself.” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote in a 1936 letter to an Englishman, Lord Lothian, that British rule is ‘based on an extreme form of widespread… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
