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Arun Shourie
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Vikram Seth
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Abul Fazal
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Shashi Tharoor
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Detailed explanation-1: -In this explosive book, bestselling author Shashi Tharoor reveals with acuity, impeccable research, and trademark wit, just how disastrous British rule was for India.
Detailed explanation-2: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Shashi Tharoor. Shashi Tharoor won the Sahitya Akademi Award 2019 for his book ‘An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India’ on December 18, 2019. This book was published in 2016.
Detailed explanation-3: -An Area of Darkness is a book written by V. S. Naipaul in 1964. It is a travelogue detailing Naipaul’s trip through India in the early sixties. It was the first of Naipaul’s acclaimed Indian trilogy that includes India: A Wounded Civilization (1977) and India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990).
Detailed explanation-4: -Tharoor shows that the Raj was an era of darkness for India, where rapacious economic exploitation of India was committed on an unprecedented scale.