| Book Name: | The Anarchy by William Dalrymple |
| Category: | Politics Books |
| Language: | English |
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A finalist for the Cundill Prize in History
The Wall Street Journal and NPR both named one of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year as Best Book of the Year.
“Superb … The story is vivid and full of details. Everyone should read it.” —Review of Books in The New York Times.
From the author of the best-selling Return of a King comes the story of how the East India Company took over large parts of Asia and the terrible things that happened when the company ran a country.
In August 1765, the East India Company beat the young Mughal emperor and set up a government run by English traders who used a private army to collect taxes.
When this new government was made, the East India Company stopped being a regular business. It turned into something very different: an international company that became an aggressive colonial power. Over the next 47 years, the company’s management grew until almost all of India south of Delhi could be ruled from a boardroom in London.
The Anarchy tells one of the most exciting stories in history: how the Mughal Empire, which controlled world trade and manufacturing and had almost unlimited resources, fell apart and was replaced by a multinational corporation based thousands of miles away and answerable to shareholders, most of whom had never been to India and didn’t know anything about the country whose wealth was giving them dividends. Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company in a way that has never been told before. He does this by using sources that have never been used before. He also shows how the abuse of corporate power had terrible effects.
2020 Arthur Ross Book Award: Bronze Medal
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Author(s): William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, Year: 2019
ISBN: 1635573955,9781635573954
