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The Anarchy – William Dalrymple
Historian William Dalrymple has carved himself a niche specialising in the history of Asia and he pulls a lot of that knowledge together to document how the British East India Company managed to subjugate India, back then one of the wealthiest and most powerful countries in the world. The book is at times rather shocking as it reveals a ruthless and rapacious private enterprise that often operated on the edge of the law, answerable only
