The Anarchy. The Relentless Rise Of The East India Company

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2019
Edition: First Edition

Description: 522 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army.The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive colonial power. Over the course of the next 47 years, the companys reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was effectively ruled from a boardroom in the city of London.

ISBN: 9781408864388