Shashi Tharoor is so eloquent, I’d recommend just because of that. But yes that book opened my eyes to so many of the intentional consequences of colonialism in India

Two books. My science teachers were good, but I wish they were as good as George Gamow, it's the simplest explainer book of some complicated physics. And Shashi Tharoor's book...it just revealed so much I previously had no idea about.