The British had the gall to call Robert Clive 'Clive of India' as if he belonged to the country, when all he really did was to ensure that much of th… - Shashi Tharoor

Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.

It was not just the maharajas who had to suffer: every Indian schoolchild must lament the influence of the British dress code on Indians — especially the tie as a permanent noose around the necks of millions of schoolchildren, in India’s sweltering heat, even today.

had exported an average of £13,000,000 worth of goods to Britain each year from 1835 to 1872 with no corresponding return of money; in fact, payments to people residing in Britain, whether profits to Company shareholders, dividends to railway investors or pensions to retired officials, made up a loss of £30 million a year.