The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire
David Veevers and Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Jerry Brotton | Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival 2024
Presented by Rajasthan Patrika
Sprawled across a quarter of the world’s land mass that claimed nearly seven hundred million people, Britain’s empire was the largest in human history. An illustrious panel evaluates the establishment of this superpower and explores the ways in which communities across the world resisted and defied both the Empire and the East India Company.
David Veevers is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Bangor University, where he teaches and writes on Colonial and Global History. He has authored The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600 - 1750 and The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire.
Shashi Tharoor, a third-term Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of twenty-four books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a former Under Secretary General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, Dr. Tharoor was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in the category of ‘English Non- Fiction’ for his book An Era of Darkness. He has previously chaired the Standing Committee on External Affairs and the Committee on Information Technology.
Jerry Brotton is a prize-winning and bestselling broadcaster, curator and the author of nine books published in more than twenty languages. They include A History of the World in Twelve Maps and This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World.
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