HistoryBook · 2019
The Anarchy
William Dalrymple
Dalrymple follows the Company from its defeat of the Mughal emperor in 1765 to its command of most of the subcontinent by 1803, and reads it as the story of the first global corporate power, answerable to its shareholders rather than to any government. Published by Bloomsbury in 2019.
Why you should read this
Dalrymple's narrative history of the East India Company's rise from trading concern to ruler of the subcontinent, written for a general audience in his usual brisk, novelistic non-fiction style. Good entry point for readers who want colonial history delivered as story rather than institutional analysis.
- Field
- History
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 2019
- Themes
- IndiaHistoryContemporary
