Anarchy
The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- author
- William Dalrymple
- Narrator
- Sid Sagar
- Length
- 15 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Catalogue #
- 20762
- Categories
- History - World
- Ratings
- 0 star rating
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.