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- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
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Bloomsbury presents The Anarchy by William Dalrymple, read by Sid Sagar.
The top five sunday times best seller.
One of Barack Obama's best books of 2019.
Longlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019.
A Financial Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Wall Street Journal and Times book of the year.
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 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.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Gloriously opulent...India is a sumptuous place. Telling its story properly demands lush language, not to mention sensitivity towards the country’s passionate complexity. Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India...A book of beauty." (Gerard DeGroot, The Times)
"Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India...A book of beauty." (Gerard DeGroot, The Times)
"An energetic pageturner that marches from the counting house on to the battlefield, exploding patriotic myths along the way...Dalrymple’s spirited, detailed telling will be reason enough for many readers to devour The Anarchy. But his more novel and arguably greater achievement lies in the way he places the company’s rise in the turbulent political landscape of late Mughal India." (Maya Jasanoff, Guardian)
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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- Ryan
- 2020-09-29
A good listen
I really enjoyed this book. A great listen. I will caveat that the author seems to spend as much time on the downfall of the Moughal Dynasty as he does the East India Company. That wasn't a downside for me - I found it fascinating, because it was all new to me.
Definitely no regrets on the purchase.
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- Mohan
- 2021-01-08
What an amazing book! It left me wanting more
Having known just the barebones history of the takeover of India by the East India Company, I was looking for something more in-depth. I found this gem of a book that satiated my appetite yet left me wanting for more. The book is well researched and extremely well written. I have listened to it a couple of times and each time I recognize a detail in the story that I had glossed over. I wish he would write a follow-up book.
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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- Norman
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Government, Inc.
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I hadn't realized the scope of the Company's hold over India until reading this
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- Langer MD
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The book is packed with mind-blowing events surrounding the East India company in India during the 18th/19th century...corporate military mercantilism - Fascinating.
Dalrymple writes really well - interesting and authoritative, without being overwhelmed by direct quotes from period documents, as so many academic works are. Historical dates and events are brought to life through Dalrymple's style.
The only real drawback is that I wasn't engrossed by the subject material - and got lost frequently...with my mind wandering. Repeatedly giving monetary conversions IN THE TEXT gets annoying, too.
Sid Sagar is an excellent narrator. Pronunciations loyal to the subject.
I hope I don't bring down the rating - it’s likely worth 8 stars, but I can't give it that. Just not my topic. 6 stars out of 10.
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- SJ
- 2021-01-05
Great book
Extremely well researched and undoubtedly detailed account of history as it played out between East and West in India.
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- Weleda Republic
- 2020-09-20
Amazing historical detail of pre-1800 India
This book has drastically altered my understanding of the British government’s role in the colonialism of India. A well read historical book with sound comparisons to today’s large multinational corporations.
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- andrew
- 2020-06-23
Sociopath meets psychopath
In Joel Bakan’s 2003 documentary film The Corporation today's corporations were likened to psychopaths. Without doubt the EIC was the most psychopathic of them all because unlike today’s corporations it was highly militarized and had the territorial ambitions of an invading army. This was the lethal ingredient it required for total domination in addition to its sharp business practices, initially lax government oversight and subservient bankers. William Dalrymple gives us a wonderful antidote to the conventional pro-European story telling method through the history of India during this period. This is similar in a way to Peter Frankopan’s method of telling of history from East to West in his Silk Roads masterpiece (I can’t wait for that audio version, out soon).
In the context of Black Lives Matter and the “statue wars” of June 2020 Dalrymple recently wrote an article for the Guardian on the 1912 Clive statue in London making a very good case for its removal. Taken in conjunction with the biographical account of Clive from this book there is very little argument for retaining it in its present location King Charles Street near the Mall, London. Lord Vulture was well named by sketch writers of the time and Dalrymple describes him as a sociopath. Thus, there was a maladjusted sociopath working for a psychopathic entity, the EIC, not a great combination for the local populations.
The book contains excellent biographies or partial biographies of many important players including Robert Clive, Tipu Sultan, Shah Alam, and Arthur Wellesley. There are diary entries from more common soldiers on all sides and a wealth of well researched Indian and Persian literature, some revealed for the first time. These provide exciting descriptions and eyewitness accounts.
For war historians there is much to enjoy including excellent accounts of The Carnatic Wars, the Battle of Plassey, the fourth Anglo-Mysore War including the Battle of Seringapatam and the second Anglo-Maratha war. Descriptions of the progress of the science and method of warfare over all these various campaigns are very well done.
I might suggest the listener goes to the epilogue first to get an overall landscape and modern contexts and then starts back at the beginning.
Props to Sid Sagar who did a great job on narration with complex names and intricate details that were very well read. He maintained my interest throughout and never sounded as though he was being perfunctory. I could have done without the constant currency conversions to values of the present day which became exceedingly tedious in places where there were many all crammed together. Fairly pointless as, who is a) going to remember any of this or b) care if something is 1 lakh rupees then versus 250 million pounds in today’s money? The values of gold, money, jewels, goods, land etc. etc. were all just so huge it would have been quite alright to leave them in the currency of the day and move on. I suppose this was done to be absolutely authentic to the original text in an unabridged reading.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-04-30
Fascinating
Very well researched story that uncloaks a lot of the layman’s conjecture on this topic. Learn about the corporation who used its imperial power to take over India for 420 years.
Spans a long time period, telling the whole story of each of the Mughal leaders and their slow relinquishment of control of India to The Company. A lot of people died. A lot of people were exploited. A few people became rich beyond imagination.
Overall an important read providing context for the most populous country on earth and it’s turbid history.
4 stars for the reading as some pronunciation is very anglicized.
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- Hilaga
- 2020-08-18
unparalleled research and seamless presentation
I was overwhelmed by the combination of solid research, assessment, and inclusion of journals that gave a historical story. it really was a story that can be listened to for just that, but to also have the references and data to go with it was such a bonus.
it was such genius to interweave the actual writings of all sides into the work, so personal a journey to read, so horrific a reality to expose. The level of depravity and loss for the peoples of India is a struggle to grasp...I mean really, there are numbers but this work has opened my eyes on what drives colonialism and how foreign governments step in.
still overwhelmed that this was one business, yet others operated further East
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- Sandeep Kumar Agrawal
- 2020-04-30
remarkable story of corporate colonialism
loved the book. well researched and well narrated. another fantastic book by Dalrymple. eagerly waiting for the next one.
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