The East India Company’s founding charter authorised it to ‘wage war’ and it had always used violence to gain its ends. 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.
Longlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019.Ī Financial Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Wall Street Journal and Times book of the year. One of Barack Obama's best books of 2019. Using previously untapped sources, Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before and provides a portrait of the devastating results from the abuse of corporate power.Bloomsbury presents The Anarchy by William Dalrymple, read by Sid Sagar.
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 based thousands of miles overseas, and answerable to shareholders, most of whom had never even seen India and no idea about the country whose wealth was providing their dividends. Over the course of the next 47 years, the company’s reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was effectively ruled from a boardroom in the city of London. The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive colonial power. In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army. You may also like Final Offer by Lauren Asher PDF Download Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. “The Anarchy by William Dalrymple ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. If you need this book in any specific format, you can request us. “The Anarchy by William Dalrymple ” is an impressive book that is now available in various format including Kindle, ePub, and PDF. The Anarchy by William Dalrymple PDF Book read online or download for free.
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