The Anarchy: How a Corporation Replaced the Mughal Empire, 1756-1803
William Dalrymple
Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (October 22, 2019)
ISBN-13: 978-1635573954

The finest chronicler of the culture and history of India turns his attention to the rapacious East India Company and will not pull any punches. We still talk about the British conquering India, but that phrase disguises a more sinister reality. It was not the British government that seized India at the end of the 18th century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in London, and managed in India by an unstable sociopath – Robert Clive, governor of Bengal.