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

By William Dalrymple

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2019
ISBN
1526618508, 9781526618504
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3831143 bytes)
Edition
Hardcover
Pages
576\0
Time added
2020-08-22 07:01:08

Description

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.

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