02919nam a2200337 a 450000100060000000300080000600500170001400800410003102000180007202000180009002000150010803500190012304000370014204100080017908200260018710000320021324500870024524600920033226400520042430001110047633600260058733700280061333800270064150400610066852016080072961000230233765000640236065000740242465100510249865100320254982476BD-RjUL20231217130025.0231217t20202019nyuabcfe b    001 0 eng d  a9781526618504  a9781635573954  a1635573955  a(BD-RjUL)82476  aHAIbengerdacYDXdDGWdBD-RjUL  aeng  223a954.031bDAA 20201 aDalrymple, Williameauthor.14aThe anarchy :bthe relentless rise of the East India Company /cWilliam Dalrymple.30aThe anarchy :bthe East India Company, corporate violence, and the pillage of an empire 1aNew York :bBloomsbury Publishing,cc2019, 2020  axxxv, 522 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates :billustrations, (chiefly color), maps, portraits ;c25 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (407-496) and index.  aIn August 1756 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 Anarchy tells the remarkable 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. In his most ambitious and riveting book to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power. -- Dust jacket flap.24aEast India Company 4aInternational business enterpriseszGreat BritainxHistory. 4aInternational business enterprisesxGovernment policyzGreat Britain. 4aIndiaxHistoryyBritish occupation, 1765-1947. 4aIndiaxEconomic conditions.