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The Anarchy Paperback - 2022

by Dalrymple, William

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  • Title The Anarchy
  • Author Dalrymple, William
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Date 2022-01-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ011W01_ns
  • ISBN 9781635575804 / 163557580X
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 5.8 x 1.8 in (23.11 x 14.73 x 4.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1800-1850
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Indian
  • Library of Congress subjects India - History - British occupation,, East India Company - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 954.031

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ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR

The epic 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 stead, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army. Over the course of the next 47 years, the company's reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was essentially 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 answerable only to shareholders, most of whom had never even seen India and had no idea about the country whose wealth provided their dividends. Using previously untapped sources, William Dalrymple provides a devastating portrait of the brutality that results when a company becomes a colonial power.

About the author

William Dalrymple is the author of nine books about India and the Islamic world, including Return of a King, which won the Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, PEN Hessell-Tiltman, and Duff Cooper Prizes. He writes regularly for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the Guardian and is one of the founders and a codirector of the Jaipur Literature Festival.