The anarchy : the East India Company, corporate violence, and the pillage of an empire / William Dalrymple.

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

©2019

xxxix, 522 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm

"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 forty-seven 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: of 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 its shareholders, most of whom had never 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." -- Page [4] of cover.

First published in Great Britain and the United States in 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

KNS180 .D35 2021

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