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

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

William Dalrymple

544 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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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 governmen...

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