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The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

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By (author): William Dalrymple

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 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 a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Sep 2020
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781408864395

About William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple is one of Britains great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals The Last Mughal which won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. A frequent broadcaster he has written and presented three television series one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He has also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award the Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the FPA Media Awards and been awarded five honorary doctorates. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has held visiting fellowships at Princeton and Brown. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books the New Yorker and the Guardian. In 2018 he was presented with the prestigious Presidents Medal by the British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. William lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.

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