TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalrymple, William
TI  - The Anarchy:  the east India company, corporate violence, and the pillage of an empire
SN  - 9781526618504
U1  - 954.031 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsburry
KW  - East India Company
KW  - India
KW  - British
N1  - https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/anarchy-9781526618504
N2  - '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
ER  -