A Social Cognitive Approach to Shashi Tharoor’s An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

Abstract

An Era of Darkness, a speech by Shashi Tharoor at Oxford Union in England in 2015, came in print in October 2016. The speech was mostly devoted to dispelling the notion of the benefits of British rules, such as democracy and geographic and political unity. However, the book was slightly modified further to graphically record the blinding darkness of British rule in India. This book undoubtedly serves as an eye-opener for the previous and current generations of Indians. In this book, Shashi Tharoor explores how the racist, selfish British brutally exploited India - starving its people, taking their wealth, tearing apart its social structure, and leaving it with a collapsed economy, an unfit democracy, and bewildered modernity. The objective of this research is to analyse the novel using the social cognition concept