The Anarchy
£14.99
The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
by Dalrymple, William | United Kingdom, Great Britain
Published 03/09/2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 576 pages
Description
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019
A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India … A book of beauty’ – Gerard De
Groot, The Times
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business.
William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
