So next on my reading list I have Open Veins of Latin America and after that I'm gonna get to How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. But then I'd like to read something about India to really get the trifecta of evil covered. But I don't know of any books that talk about the exploitation of India from Marxist or leftist perspective. You all have any recommendations?

  • ClathrateG [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    This article is very good https://mronline.org/2019/01/15/britain-robbed-india-of-45-trillion-thence-1-8-billion-indians-died-from-deprivation/ one of the sources is the book Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglorious_Empire I haven't read it personally so I can't provide detail but it which maybe more what you're looking for, I think the author is leftish, he was a minster when the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Progressive_Alliance were in power, but he was in the UN and shit so :shrug-outta-hecks:

    • CyberSyndicalist [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Eminent Scottish historian William Dalrymple criticised the book, saying it "was written in 12 days, involved no personal archive research and contains some serious factual errors" however he maintained that the book was, nevertheless, "persuasive".

      The rare and elusive "I've been owned without facts or logic"