![]() ![]() The Anarchy starts off with the birth of the Company in 1599, when a group of investors came together to trade with the East. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire William Dalrymple Bloomsbury Non-fiction ₹699 India’s transition to colonialism took place under a for-profit corporation, which existed entirely for the purpose of enriching its investors,” says Dalrymple in the introduction to the book. ![]() “It was not the British government that began seizing large chunks of India in the mid-eighteenth century, but a dangerously unregulated private company. ![]() And how, amazingly, this was done by a privately held conglomerate over a period of just 50-odd years. He shows how India, which was once among the greatest economic powers in the world, became a colonised State exploited for its natural resources, her people reduced to penury and degradation. In clearly his most ambitious book to date, Dalrymple traces the story of the East India Company from its birth to the height of its glory. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire. “Now seventy-five, the old, blind king still sat on the gilt replica of the Peacock Throne amid his ruined palace, the sightless ruler of a largely illusory kingdom.” Blinded, humiliated, used as a pawn, the Mughal king with no kingdom is one of the many compelling cast of characters who come to life in the pages of William Dalrymple’s latest book It is the dawn of the 19th century, and in a desolate fort, on a frayed throne, sits Emperor Shah Alam. ![]()
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