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ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMAS 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 companys 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 historys most remarkable stories: how the Mughal Empirewhich dominated world trade and manufacturing and possessed almost unlimited resourcesfell apart and was replaced by a multinational corporation answerable only to shareholders, most of whom had never even seen India and had 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
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 01/11/2022
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.80w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9781635575804
Language: English
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