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"In his most ambitious and riveting book to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power," the publisher said in a statement.In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor Shah Alam 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 privatisation.The East India Company's founding charter authorised it to "wage war" and it had always used violence to gain its ends. But the creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional international trading corporation dealing in silks and spices and became something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. In less than four decades it had trained up a security force of around 200,000 men - twice the size of the British army - and had subdued an entire subcontinent, conquering first Bengal and finally, in 1803, the Mughal capital of Delhi itself.The Company's reach that stretched until almost all of India south of the Himalayas was effectively ruled from a boardroom in London.William Dalrymple, the acclaimed historian and art historian, is the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning "White Mughals", "The Last Mughal", which won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning "Return of a King". A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He has also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the FPA Media Awards, and been awarded five honorary doctorates. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting fellowships at Princeton and Brown.( With inputs from IANS )

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National :Has Dalrymple stirred fresh controversy with Marwari remark?

Scottish historian and award winning author William Dalrymple recreated his latest work, "The Anarchy" at the launch of a seven-city book tour here, contending that the East India Company (EIC), which later morphed into the British Raj, was the "grea ...

National :Imran reading Dalrymple's 'The Anarchy' sets Twitter abuzz

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National :Revisiting East India Company's history to flag corporate power perils of abuse ( Exclusive)

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International :China grabbed more land than East India company, says ex-Maldives Prez

Comparing China to the East India Company, former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed has alleged that without firing a bullet Beijing has grabbed more land than East India Company. ...

National :Dalrymple's tome to perils of corporate power abuse (Book Review)

Historian, writer, art curator, as also an award-winning broadcaster and critic, William Dalrymple has quite exceeded himself with his latest book. ...

National :William Dalrymple's 'The Anarchy' to release on Sept 10

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