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The Anarchy - The Relentless Rise of the East India Company (Hardcover)
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The Anarchy - The Relentless Rise of the East India Company (Hardcover)
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THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS
OF 2019 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 DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company
defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in
his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants
who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army - what
we would now call an act of involuntary privatisation. The East
India Company's founding charter authorised it to 'wage war' and it
had always used violence to gain its ends. But the creation of this
new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased
to be a conventional international trading corporation dealing in
silks and spices and became something much more unusual: an
aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business.
In less than four decades it had trained up a security force of
around 200,000 men - twice the size of the British army - and had
subdued an entire subcontinent, conquering first Bengal and
finally, in 1803, the Mughal capital of Delhi itself. The Company's
reach stretched until almost all of India south of the Himalayas
was effectively ruled from a boardroom in London. The Anarchy tells
the remarkable story of how one of the world's most magnificent
empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously
unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in
one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its
distant shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting book to
date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company
as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary
tale of the first global corporate power.
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