The following are tentative and will be established at the pre-meeting.
1. The Looting of India
2. Did the British Give India Political Unity?
3. Democracy, the Press, the Parliamentary System and the Rule of Law
4. Divide et Impera
5. The Myth of Enlightened Despotism
6. The Remaining Case for Empire
7. The (Im)Balance Sheet: A Coda and The Messy Afterlife of Empire
Shashi Tharoor, Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (paperback) Amazon
Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (paperback) Amazon