# The Anarchy - Hardcover

by **William Dalrymple** (Author)

**Finalist for the Cundill History Prize**

**ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR**

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY _The Wall Street Journal_ and NPR**

**"Superb ... A vivid and richly detailed story ... worth reading by everyone." --_The New York Times Book Review_**

**From the bestselling author of _Return of a King_, 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 company's reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was effectively ruled from a boardroom in the city of London.

_The Anarchy_ tells one of history's most remarkable stories: how the Mughal Empire--which dominated world trade and manufacturing and possessed almost unlimited resources--fell apart and was replaced by a multinational corporation based thousands of miles overseas, and answerable to shareholders, most of whom had never even seen India and no idea about the country whose wealth was providing their dividends. Using previously untapped sources, Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before and provides a portrait of the devastating results from the abuse of corporate power.

**Bronze Medal in the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award**

### Author Biography

**William Dalrymple** is the author of nine books about India and the Islamic world, including _Return of a King_, which won the Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, PEN Hessell-Tiltman, and Duff Cooper Prizes. He writes regularly for the _New Yorker,_ the _New York Review of Books,_ and the _Guardian_ and is one of the founders and a codirector of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

**Number of Pages:** 576

**Dimensions:** 1.9 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** September 10, 2019

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