The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company - William Dalrymple Audiobook
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Corruption
Greed
India 1800’s
International Trade
Private Army
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Read by Sid Sager
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
Release date: 10-17-19
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Founded in 1599 by a “motley” group of London investors, the joint stock company received a royal charter ambiguous enough to allow its future directors to “claim jurisdiction over all English subjects in Asia,” The East India Company’s founding charter authorised it to ‘wage war’ and it had always used violence to gain its ends.
In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army.
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 stretched until almost all of India south of the Himalayas was effectively ruled from a boardroom in London.
The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting audiobook to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Co
Dalrymple sketches the East India Company’s first 150 years before focusing on the period from 1756 to 1803, when it committed “the supreme act of corporate violence in world history” by seizing control of nearly all of the Indian subcontinent from the Mughal Empire. He traces the conquest’s roots to the French and Indian War in North America, and profiles such notable figures as Robert Clive. Clive recruited a private army of Indian soldiers and led them into battle against the nawab of Bengal, and Siraj ud-Daula, a Mughal ally who briefly captured Calcutta in 1757.
Dalrymple nimbly chronicles both sides of the ensuing war while never losing sight of just how bizarre and problematic it was for a profit-driven company to become a colonial ruler or create an army. Readers on the lookout for warning signs about the dangers of today’s megacorporations will find them in this vibrant, revisionist history.
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This post has 14 comments with rating of 5/5
January 22nd, 2020
What an appalling assemblage of infernally evil dirtbags they were.
January 22nd, 2020
How very PC of you.
January 22nd, 2020
Makes you proud to be British.
January 22nd, 2020
Someone finally accused me of being PC! That’s a bona fide, ironic win, right there.
January 22nd, 2020
Excellent! I’d been waiting for this to appear, many thanks!
January 22nd, 2020
@caesar963: You’re not as clever as we think.
January 22nd, 2020
@illodiini - not clever at all, given that I’m still trying to work that one out…
January 22nd, 2020
that’s how the world worked back then,it’s unfair to hold people of the past to today’s morals. I would imagine that our forebears would have some interesting opinions on many of the things we do today too.this didn’t happen in a vacuum where there was just one “evil company” preying on the innocent. The people of the past all played by the same rules and had mostly the same motivations and morals. that is not to justify everything done in the past but every culture and every race had and has the same capacities and motivations. we are just a bit more civilized today,that’s all.
January 23rd, 2020
Well, it’s a tiny bit more complex than it’s most simple representation. The idea that one ethnic group is uniquely evil is base nonsense. Couldn’t agree more on that one. History reveals nothing of the sort. However, we have to draw a distinction between survival & iniquitous exploitation. It is possible to examine historical events & dynamics and identify clear victims & perpetrators, at various times. My tribe/group/class/nation, right or wrong, is dangerous excrement, and has proven to be so.
Objective ethics, natural law, principled norms & moral values - we can detect whether they were a factor in historical events if & when there was contemporary criticism, from within & without, of corruption & turpitude. The great Edmund Burke vs the British East India Company in the 18th Century, as a pertinent for instance. And the Spanish Jesuits’ eloquent condemnation of the brutality & avarice of Spanish colonialism in the Americas during the 16th Century.
Morality, justice & conscience aren’t new, we just fail to heed their dictates. At least a significant amount of the time. Most people have appreciated very well what they were doing - whether good or evil. Unless psychopathy is the excuse.
Caesar’s not at home to silly, romanticised distortions of imperialism/fascism/Marxism or whatever the delusional, dysfunctional pathology happens to be (so many fall into these obvious traps). Folks usually have one or other, or a fatuous combination of these mindless ideologies going on. They shall not pass, as that valiant, gallant wizard said. Before his unfortunate untimely.
Call evil by its proper name, without fear or favour.
Human nature doesn’t change, so it’s arguable that we are more civilised than those moral reprobates of yore. Just better at superficially policing the tendency.
January 26th, 2020
@whiteknight06604: Thats the kind of comment that makes me wonder if we should think in the same way about slavery and for holocaust. What is wrong and evil is always been so no matter what time or place.
August 4th, 2020
The history of the World is violent; however it went from practiced norm to greatly condemned the world over because even though it was common back then, the vanquished didn’t think it was fair game to be treated that way. And there are parts of this same world today that only know this continued exploitation. Enter the Island of Chagos which the British govt has refused to return. I find this appalling.
March 2nd, 2021
Requesting for two more books
1. The white Mughals - William Dalrymple
2. The last Mughal ( full version) - William Dalrymple
Pleaseeeee if you can.
March 22nd, 2022
I read the book. The atrocities of the EIC were astonishing in their brutality. Astonishing perhaps because they resemble too much the excesses of previous rulers in the region. European conquerors seem to know on a spiritual level that the power they wield needs to be controlled by a higher morality than other conquerors. And they’re right. In the end it wasn’t force of arms that brought the “Empire within an Empire” to an end, it was the outrage of the British people at the Company’s excesses. They were defeated by bad PR. In the moral code of their own culture they had forfeited their right to power, their legal charter was revoked and the company disintegrated. History’s first Cancelled Corporation?
I’m reading the comments of a self-loathing westerner and again struck by the irony that their virtue is based 100% in the Christian moral ethic. It’s as though western culture, Christian + enlightenment values have within them the seeds of their own destruction. They were the first culture in history to create a nation based on moral grounds, outlaw slavery on moral grounds and even try to eliminate sex on moral grounds. It passes them by that they have created the safest, most prosperous, least racist countries on earth where everyone wants to live and grow. Instead they walk with shame for having once behaved like everyone else. There is inherent in Wokeness a form of passive racism, a notion that westerners *should* be better than everyone else; the conceit of westerners “bearing their cross.”
May 27th, 2022
Thank you kindly
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