The Anarchy

The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

Business & Economics

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...