The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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Dalrymple is a brilliant historian with a deep understanding of India. The Book of Beauty - Gerard Degrout, The Times In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to set up a new administration in his rich counties ruled by English merchants, supported by a ruthless private army. Taxes were collected. What we would now call the process of involuntary privatization, the founders of the chartered East India Company gave it the right to 'fight war' and it always used violence to achieve its goals. But the creation of this new regime marked the moment when the East India Company ceased to be a traditional international trading company trading silk and spices and became something even stranger: a multinational corporation in the guise of Aggressive colonial power. In less than four decades, he trained a security force of some 200,000 men - twice the size of the British army - and conquered the entire subcontinent, first Bengal and finally, in 1803, the Mughal capital of Delhi itself. Conquered. The company's reach expanded until almost all of India south of the Himalayas was ruled by a board of directors in London, and Anarchy tells the fascinating story of how one of the world's most magnificent empires collapsed and He was replaced by a dangerous one. An empire of unregulated private corporations. It is located thousands of miles overseas in a tiny office, with five showcase windows and accountable only to its remote shareholders. William Dalrymple, in his most ambitious and provocative book to date, tells the story of the East India Company as never before, revealing a timely cautionary tale about the Company's first world power. Is.
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing (10 September 2019)
Language : English
Hardcover : 576 pages
ISBN-10 : 1526618508
ISBN-13 : 978-1526618504
Item Weight : 885 g
Dimensions : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
Country of Origin : United Kingdom
Net Quantity : 1.00 count
Generic Name : Book
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