The Anarchy

Bloomsbury presents The Anarchy by William Dalrymple, read by Sid Sagar.


THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER


ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019


THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR


FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020


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


'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India … A book of beauty' – Gerard DeGroot, The Times


In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business.


William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.