Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician, who served for 29 years at the United Nations, ultimately becoming undersecretary general, has been highly critical of empires – and with good reason. Tharoor was particularly critical of the British Empire, which he believed plundered India for all it had to offer in order to benefit the British.
Tharoor's argument is supported by the fact that, “ironically, the British used raw material and exported the finished products to India and the rest of the world, the industrial equivalent of adding insult to injury.” This process of eliminating the skilled workforce in India got rid of competition as the Indians were simply unable to compete with machines in either cost or speed.
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