ANARCHY : Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Language: English Publication details: London Bloomsbury 2019/01/01Edition: 1Description: 522ISBN:- 9781526618504
- 954.031 DAL/AN
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954.03092 SUB/UN UNFORTUNATE CELEBRITY : | 954.031 AWA/RE RELATIONS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY WITH THE PERIPHERAL STATES 1772-1812 A.D : | 954.031 CHE/AS ASCENT OF JOHN COMPANY : | 954.031 DAL/AN ANARCHY : Relentless Rise of the East India Company | 954.031 DAL/LA LAST MUGHAL: FALL OF A DYNASTY, DELHI, 1857 | 954.031 GAU/RE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND BHARATPUR ( 1761-1825 A. D. ) | 954.031 IRF/PE PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF INDIA 31 : National Movement Part 2 : Struggle for Freedom 1919-1947 |
From the bestselling author of Return of a King, the story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country. In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army. The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive colonial power. Over the course of the next 47 years, the company's reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was effectively ruled from a boardroom in the city of London. The Anarchy tells one of history's most remarkable stories: how the Mughal Empire-which dominated world trade and manufacturing and possessed almost unlimited resources-fell apart and was replaced by a multinational corporation based thousands of miles overseas, and answerable to shareholders, most of whom had never even seen India and no idea about the country whose wealth was providing their dividends. Using previously untapped sources, Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before and provides a portrait of the devastating results from the abuse of corporate power.
1599 --
An offer he could not refuse --
Sweeping with the broom of plunder --
A prince of little capacity --
Bloodshed and confusion --
Racked by famine --
The desolation of Delhi --
The impeachment of Warren Hastings --
The corpse of India.
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