03012nam a2200361 a 4500 82476 BD-RjUL 20231217130025.0 231217t20202019nyuabcfe b 001 0 eng d 9781526618504 9781635573954 1635573955 (BD-RjUL)82476 HAI eng rda YDX DGW BD-RjUL eng 23 954.031 DAA 2020 Dalrymple, William author. 10550 The anarchy : the relentless rise of the East India Company / William Dalrymple. The anarchy : the East India Company, corporate violence, and the pillage of an empire New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, c2019, 2020 xxxv, 522 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (407-496) and index. In 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. East India Company 10551 International business enterprises Great Britain History. 10552 International business enterprises Government policy Great Britain. 10553 India History British occupation, 1765-1947. 9152 India Economic conditions. 4104 ddc BK 82476 82476 0 0 ddc 0 1 NFIC RUCL RUCL Reading 2023-12-10 Dhaka: Omni Concept 1091.00 0 954.031 DAA 2020 2023-12-17 00:00:00 C-1 2023-12-17 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC RUCL RUCL GEN 2023-12-10 Dhaka: Omni Concept 1091.00 0 954.031 DAA 2020 2023-12-17 00:00:00 C-2 2023-12-17 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC RUCL RUCL GEN 2023-12-10 Dhaka: Omni Concept 1091.00 0 954.031 DAA 2020 2023-12-17 00:00:00 C-3 2023-12-17 BK