![]() ![]() Dalrymple has a wonderful eye for detail. It’s an amazing story and Dalrymple tells it with verve and style drawing, as in his previous books, on underused Indian, Persian and French sources. In The Anarchy, historian William Dalrymple recounts the remarkable rise of the East India Company from its founding in 1599 to 1803 when it commanded an army twice the size of the British Army and ruled over the Indian subcontinent. Reviewed for EH.Net by Alex Tabarrok, Department of Economics, George Mason University. ![]() William Dalrymple, The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Author(s): ![]()
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