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

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