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Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire Paperback – April 28, 2022

by Priya Satia (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
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CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE

'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly Waters

For generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. Their narratives of the development of imperial governance licensed the brutal suppression of colonial rebellion. Their reimagining of empire during the two world wars compromised the force of decolonization.

In this brilliant work, Priya Satia shows how these historians not only interpreted the major political events of their time but also shaped the future that followed. History emerged as a mode of ethics in the modern period, endowing historians from John Stuart Mill to Winston Churchill with outsized policymaking power. Braided with this story is an account of alternative visions articulated by anticolonial thinkers such as William Blake, Mahatma Gandhi and E. P. Thompson. By the mid-twentieth century, their approaches had reshaped the discipline of history and the ethics that came with it.

Time's Monster reveals the dramatic consequences of writing history today as much as in the past. Against the backdrop of enduring global inequalities and debates about reparations and the legacy of empire, Satia offers us a hugely important and urgent moral voice.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin (April 28, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141993928
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141993928
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.83 x 7.8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Debashis Das
5.0 out of 5 stars AN EYE - OPENER FOR COLONIAL HISTORY MAKING
Reviewed in India on August 1, 2022
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I have the knowledge of this book from Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg Curse where Mr. Ghosh has referred to this book to point home this idea of how the past European colonial superpowers had their sponsored historians to make history of their own where very cautiously and tactfully the colonial historians suppressed the actual real history and highlighted their forged history. Elsewhere I have had this information that almost entire young college going generation of Europe and America is well- acquinted with the historical infamy of the Black Hole Massacre which took place in Calcutta during the reign of the last independent Bengali ruler Nawab Sirajuddula and which took the lives of a good number of the English soldiers of Lord Clive after succumbing to death from suffocation . In every civil engineering institution of the west this historical incident has been alluded to the aspiring civil engineers to extrapolate the important idea of space in the lay - out of a civil construction. Why not any other incident of history? Why are you referring to an incident where you , the former conolials suffered from someone whom you intended to colonize? The incident of the Black Hole Massacre is not justifiable. No human death is acceptable. But there are many pertinent speculations regarding the authenticity of this history as many historians thought that it was impossible for the then Nawab of Bengal to stage such a barbarous human massacre especially when he was in a receiving phase being threatened by many of his once- loyal courtiers and ministers whom Lord Clive had bribed to topple his reign in order to get a strong foothole in Bengal which was then strategically and cartographically very important to the English East - India company. Why not you refer to how you colonialists once put hundreds of African salves in a small cabin of a ship which was hardly for just ten odd peoples? Is this not an example to be put before an budding civil engineering student to demonstrate before him the very idea of the space management in a lay - out of a civil engineering construction? Or you simply don't want to show off your inhumanity to your future generations? Why this double dealing in history making? Historian Priya Satia has extensively dealt this in this book where she briefed the colonial way of managing history to their ends . This is an interesting book. Worthy. Any serious reader of history should have a look through it. Thanks to Amazon for a timely and secured delivery of the book.
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Nicholas
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it
Reviewed in Australia on February 10, 2022
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It is great so far, highly recommend
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P. Gangopadhyay
5.0 out of 5 stars An account of managing guilty conscience
Reviewed in India on April 5, 2021
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This book is an account of British historians of the British Empire who appeased and warded off guilty conscience. This book is written in a backdrop of the ugly fact that 43 % of Britons believe the empire was a good thing as late as 2016 and 44 % consider Britain's colonial past with pride. Several British historians have in the recent past written laudatory account of the Empire. This book is an important corrective to such accounts. I suspect that this book will not be favorably received in Britain. However, this book is a must read for Indians and all those who want to know the truth about the British Empire and it's historians. I strongly recommend the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent work
Reviewed in India on February 6, 2021
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Excellent work, compelling and edifying
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Mandala
5.0 out of 5 stars An honest and educational new look at the history of the British empire.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2020
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I ordered this book because the subject matter is fascinating. I didn’t want to see history through rose tinted glasses; I wanted the truth, however bitter the taste. History books more often than not glorify or gloss over the horrific brutalities that occurred at the hands of seemingly honourable individuals because of how history has been portrayed. The consciences of these people protected with weak justifications or falsities that only continue to keep our nation the dark ages about its past.

I was slightly discouraged in the introduction as I found it a little wordy and repetitive. Luckily, the rest of the book isn’t written in quite the same style, there is a better flow to the book from chapter 1 onwards. Points are well referenced with sources available.

It is refreshing to read a history book that doesn’t romanticise atrocities. This is a book refuses to be dismissive of the victims of colonialism and makes the reader question history as it has been told to offer a new outlooks and education for the future of history telling.
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