The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, And The Pillage Of An Empire (Hardcover 10 September 2019)

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  • ENGLISH

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  • 576

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  • 9781526618504

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  • 160 mm

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  • 242 mm

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  • 912 gram

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  • 2019

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 10 SEPTEMBER 2019

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    '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 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 Privatisation.The East India Company's Founding Charter Authorised It To 'wage War' And It Had Always Used Violence To Gain Its Ends. But The Creation Of This New Government Marked The Moment...  Read More

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    William Dalrymple

    William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. The book won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award; it was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for six years researching his second book, City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. From the Holy Mountain, his acclaimed study of the demise of Christianity in its Middle Eastern homeland, was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award for 1997; it was also shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. A collection of his writings about India, The Age of Kali, won the French Prix D’Astrolabe in 2005.

    White Mughals was published in 2003, the book won the Wolfson Prize for History 2003, the Scottish Book of the Year Prize, and was shortlisted for the PEN History Award, the Kiryama Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

    William Dalrymple is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and is the founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

    In 2002 he was awarded the Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his ‘outstanding contribution to travel literature’. He wrote and presented the television series Stones of the Raj and Indian Journeys, which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002. His Radio 4 series on the history of British spirituality and mysticism, The Long Search, won the 2002 Sandford St Martin Prize for Religious Broadcasting and was described by the judges as ‘thrilling in its brilliance... near perfect radio’. In December 2005 his article on the madrasas of Pakistan was awarded the prize for

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