The anarchy : the relentless rise of the East India Company /
In August 1756, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army, what we would now call an act of involuntary privatization. The Ea...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- 1599
- An offer he could not refuse
- Sweeping with the broom of plunder
- A prince of little capacity
- Bloodshed and confusion
- Racked by famine
- The desolation of Delhi
- The impeachment of Warren Hastings
- The corpse of India.