Full name: The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

Author: William Dalrymple Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781635573954 1635573955

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. Similar books: Early India by Romila Thapar The Great Moghuls by Bamber Gascoigne Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann India by John Keay The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru The Ruling Caste by David Gilmour The Honourable Company by John Keay Raj by Lawrence James A New History of India by Stanley Wolpert India After Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha India and the Mughal Dynasty by Valerie Berinstain The Mughal Throne by Abraham Eraly The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple The Great Mutiny by Christopher Hibbert The Raj by Roger Hudson Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff America by Dinesh D'Souza Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin A Warning by Anonymous