Obtener libros The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East
India Company
By William Dalrymple
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.
