TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalrymple,William
AU  - Fraser,Olivia
TI  - The anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company 
SN  - 1635573955
AV  - DS465 .D35 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - East India Company
KW  - History
KW  - International business enterprises
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Government policy
KW  - India
KW  - British occupation, 1765-1947
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (407-496) and index; 1599 -- An offer he could not refuse -- Sweeping with the broom of plunder -- A prince of little capacity -- Bloodshed and confusion -- Racked by famine -- The desolation of Delhi -- The impeachment of Warren Hastings -- The corpse of India
N2  - "In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army -- what we would now call an act of involuntary privatization. The East India Company's founding charter authorized it to 'wage war' and it had always used violence to gain its ends. But the creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional international trading corporation dealing in silks and spices and became something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. In less than four decades it had trained up a security force of around 200,000 men -- twice the size of the British army -- and had subdued an entire subcontinent, conquering first Bengal and finally, in 1803, the Mughal capital of Delhi itself. The Company's reach stretched until almost all of India south of the Himalayas was effectively ruled from a boardroom in London. The Anarachy tells the story of how one of the world's most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders."-- jacket
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