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The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple (Hardcover, 2019)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139781408864371
eBay Product ID (ePID)4046500513
Product Key Features
Number of Pages576 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Anarchy: the Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Publication Year2019
SubjectEconomics, History
TypeTextbook
AuthorWilliam Dalrymple
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Weight1098 g
Item Width153 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorWilliam Dalrymple
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- 04 Dec, 2019
a very readable and well researched book
Will Dalrymple has written many books on India. He has a genetic connection thro' ancestors in India going back 3 centuries, and has a home in India He started his literary career at the age of 22 whilst still an undergraduate at Cambridge, won awards on that travel book and most , if not all others he has written. In my estimation, he has the widest knowledge of any European on the subcontinent and somehow manages to open doors that others can't He is one of those rare writers who has the ability to make the most factual of books fascinating.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 27 Nov, 2019
Another classic about early British India
I haven’t read this yet - I purchased it because of the great reviews and because Daleymple’s other books, ‘White Mughals’ and ‘The Last Mughal’ were both brilliant.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 17 May, 2020
Compulsive reading
Learnt a great deal that I did not knowVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 11 Jun, 2023
The title sums it up
Brolliant narrativeVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 11 Dec, 2019
first class historical writing
well-written, compelling accountVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 02 Sep, 2020
good
goodVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 06 Sep, 2023
Excellent read!
An excellent read!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
