RaveThe Guardian (UK)A nuanced, complicated account of the British empire’s impact on the world as we know it ... The raking light that Sanghera throws across the contradictions at the heart of the story of empire doesn’t come without some trepidation for the author ... But his larger response is to spell out the complexity of historical assessment with painstaking clarity, showing, repeatedly, the deep entwinement of the positive and negative contributions of empire.
