![]() ![]() Meanwhile, in the expanding coastal trading posts, the initial presence of armed guards to protect the company's staff and premises had evolved into a fully fledged army that by 1757 under Robert "Clive of India" had toppled the independent nawab of India's richest province, Bengal. ![]() In 1739, the capital at Delhi was sacked by the Persians. By the end of the century, however, they were tired, divided, and overextended. Its aim was to compete with colonial rivals such as the French and Dutch for lucrative trade opportunities with India, an industrial and cultural superpower that under its Mughal emperors would account for 27 per cent of the world economy.Īwash with gems, natural resources, shipyards and a sophisticated cultural life, the Mughals were happy to trade. ![]() In 1600, the British East India Company was formed under royal charter. It all began as a harmless commercial enterprise, Tharoor reminds us. In the process, Tharoor accuses a number of historians, most prominent among them, Niall Ferguson, of being apologists for the racial discrimination, violence, economic sabotage and denial of liberty embodied by centuries of British rule in India. As empires go, he says, Britain's was uncommonly ruthless, devious and rapacious in its quest to enslave a people whose leaders failed to see how free trade, unwisely managed, can undermine a country's long-term sovereignty and prosperity. ![]() In doing so, he seeks to remind misty-eyed Raj romantics that colonialism was no joke. ![]()
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In Europe, his popularity soared he sold millions of books in Germany and France. He was then effectively blacklisted in the United States, with many of his books removed from libraries and lost to American readers until about a decade ago, when Phaidon Press began reissuing his work. Ungerer once attended a conference where angry librarians asked him why an illustrator of children’s books would also depict graphic sex acts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The name has ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls in the United States since 2015 and among the top 300 since 2022. Ophelia has also been the subject of numerous songs, paintings, film and television productions. Ophelia is also a moon of Uranus named after the Shakespearean character and the name of a variety of hybrid tea rose bred in 1912. Author Laura Wattenberg noted that the name is elegant, exotic, and similar in style to the popular name Olivia but has a more Gothic, romantic sensibility that some parents find appealing. More modern associations, including Ophelia, a song by The Lumineers, now also influence perceptions of the name, which also has a history of use dating back to the late 1800s. The name is best known as a character from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet who met a tragic end. ![]() Ophelia is a feminine given name, probably derived from Ancient Greek ὠφέλεια ( ōphéleia, "benefit"). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Follett continues to write incredibly engaging stories. While his first books in the mid-1970s aren’t famous today, Follett’s name became famous when his World War II thriller “The Eye of the Needle” received the Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America in 1979.īut this was only the beginning of his extensive collection of masterpieces. 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