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The anarchy : the relentless rise of the East India Company
- Title
- The anarchy : the relentless rise of the East India Company / William Dalrymple.
- Author
- Dalrymple, William
- Publication
- London : Bloomsbury, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xxxv, 522 pages, 50 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- In August 1765 the East India Company defeated and captured the young Mughal emperor and forced him to set up in his richest provinces a new government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a vast and ruthless private army.0The 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 half a century it had trained up a private security force of around 260,000 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 relentlessly until almost all of India south of the Himalayas was effectively ruled from a boardroom in London. 0'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 and answerable only to its 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10126
- ISBN
- 9781408864371
- 1408864371
- OCLC
- 1108710308
- Author
- Dalrymple, William, author.
- Title
- The anarchy : the relentless rise of the East India Company / William Dalrymple.
- Publisher
- London : Bloomsbury, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1765-1947
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10126