The Anarchy : the east India company, corporate violence, and the pillage of an empire
Dalrymple, William
The Anarchy : the east India company, corporate violence, and the pillage of an empire - London Bloomsburry 2019 - 522p.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/anarchy-9781526618504/
'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.
9781526618504
East India Company
India
British
954.031 / DAL
The Anarchy : the east India company, corporate violence, and the pillage of an empire - London Bloomsburry 2019 - 522p.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/anarchy-9781526618504/
'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.
9781526618504
East India Company
India
British
954.031 / DAL