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- Title: The
Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an
Empire
- Author: William Dalrymple
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
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- Pages: 625
- Size: 8 MB
- Language: English
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- Year: 2019
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The Anarchy: The East India
Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire By William
Dalrymple | Free PDF Download | Ebook download
'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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