The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

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Author: William Dalrymple
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by Dalrymple, William

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

$45.30

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

$45.30
Author: William Dalrymple
Format: Paperback
Language: English

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR

The epic story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.

In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his stead, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army. Over the course of the next 47 years, the company's reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was essentially ruled from a boardroom in the city of London.

The Anarchy tells one of history's most remarkable stories: how the Mughal Empire-which dominated world trade and manufacturing and possessed almost unlimited resources-fell apart and was replaced by a multinational corporation answerable only to shareholders, most of whom had never even seen India and no idea about the country whose wealth provided their dividends. Using previously untapped sources, William Dalrymple provides a devastating portrait of the brutality that results when a company becomes a colonial power.

Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 01/11/2022
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.80w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9781635575804

About the Author
William Dalrymple is the author of nine books about India and the Islamic world, including Return of a King, which won the Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, PEN Hessell-Tiltman, and Duff Cooper Prizes. He writes regularly for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the Guardian and is one of the founders and a codirector of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

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