Anarchia

This historical work recounts the remarkable rise of the East India Company from a small trading enterprise to a colonial power that ruled large parts of India. It explores how a private corporation, answerable only to its shareholders, was able to replace the mighty Mughal Empire and change the course of global history.

Author: William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple is a British historian and writer based in Delhi. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won numerous awards for his deeply researched and engagingly written books on Indian history.