The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
DESCRIPTION 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 Beng...
