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008			181130s2019 nyuabf e b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9781635573954 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1635573955 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1076511649 _z(OCoLC)1119143436 _z(OCoLC)1120037398 _z(OCoLC)1122908756
040			_cLibrary of People’s Majlis
050		4	_aDS465 _b.D35 2019
055		3	_aPurchase on request / Achat sur demande
082	0	4	_a954.03/1 _223
100	1		_aDalrymple, William, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe anarchy : _bthe relentless rise of the East India Company / _cWilliam Dalrymple ; [maps and illustrations, Olivia Fraser].
246	1		_iTitle on jacket: _aAnarchy : _bthe East India Company, corporate violence, and the pillage of an empire
246	3	0	_aRelentless rise of the East India Company
264		1	_aNew York : _bBloomsbury Publishing, _c2019.
300			_axxxv, 522 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, (chiefly color), maps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (407-496) and index.
505	0		_a1599 -- An offer he could not refuse -- Sweeping with the broom of plunder -- A prince of little capacity -- Bloodshed and confusion -- Racked by famine -- The desolation of Delhi -- The impeachment of Warren Hastings -- The corpse of India.
520			_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.
610	2	0	_aEast India Company _xHistory.
610	2	7	_aEast India Company _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00537796
611	2	7	_aBritish Occupation of India (1765-1947) _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01352145
648		7	_a1765-1947 _2fast
650		0	_aInternational business enterprises _zGreat Britain _xHistory.
650		0	_aInternational business enterprises _xGovernment policy _zGreat Britain.
650		7	_aEconomic history. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00901974
650		7	_aInternational business enterprises. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00976774
650		7	_aInternational business enterprises _xGovernment policy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00976804
651		0	_aIndia _xHistory _yBritish occupation, 1765-1947.
651		0	_aIndia _xEconomic conditions.
651		7	_aGreat Britain. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204623
651		7	_aIndia. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01210276
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700	1		_aFraser, Olivia, _d1965- _eillustrator.
942			_2ddc _cBK
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