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, NY :
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.
