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

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced

544 pages | first published 2019

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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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