The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

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THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR * LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 * A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India . . . A book of beauty' - Gerard DeGroot, The Times

In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business.

William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.


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