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The Anarchy

The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

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The Anarchy

Von: William Dalrymple
Gesprochen von: Sid Sagar
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Bloomsbury presents The Anarchy by William Dalrymple, read by Sid Sagar.

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR
FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019
A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

‘Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India … A book of beauty’ – Gerard DeGroot, The Times

In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business.

William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.©2019 William Dalrymple (P)2019 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Asien Europa Großbritannien Militär Neuere Politik & Regierungen
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Kritikerstimmen

An energetic pageturner that marches from the counting house on to the battlefield, exploding patriotic myths along the way (Maya Jasanoff)
A tour de force ***** (Anne de Courcy)
Magnificent … The Anarchy explodes myths that have accreted around the history of the Company like barnacles on the hulls of its ships ... Dalrymple shines a forensic light on the knotty historical relationship between commercial and imperial power (John McAleer)
Dalrymple has been at the forefront of the new wave of popular history, consistently producing work that engages with a wider audience through writerly craft, an emphasis on characters and their agency, evocative description of place and time, and the inclusion of long-neglected perspectives … The book’s real achievement is to take readers to an important and neglected period of British and south Asian history, and to make their trip their not just informative but colourful (Jason Burke)
Gloriously opulent … India is a sumptuous place. Telling its story properly demands lush language, not to mention sensitivity towards the country’s passionate complexity. Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India … A book of beauty (Gerard DeGroot)
It is well-trodden territory but Dalrymple ... brings to it erudition, deep insight and an entertaining style
Combining extensive research, judicious analysis and an acceptable level of outrage, Dalrymple’s compelling account will cement his status as the most widely read British writer on India since Kipling … A brave and stirring narrative of India’s eighteenth-century fragmentation (John Keay)
[A] rampaging, brilliant, passionate history … Dalrymple gives us every sword-slash, every scam, every groan and battle cry. He has no rival as a narrative historian of the British in India … A gripping tale of bloodshed and deceit, of unimaginable opulence and intolerable starvation ... shot through with an unappeasable moral passion
‘Masterful … Dalrymple has been for some years one of the most eloquent and assiduous chroniclers of Indian history. With this new work, he sounds a minatory note … Dalrymple has done a great service in not just writing an eminently readable history of eighteenth-century India, but in reflecting on how so much of it serves as a warning for our own time’ (Stuart Kelly)
A magnificently readable book, deeply researched and richly atmospheric, written with a historian’s understanding of power and a novelistic eye for detail ***** (Francis Wheen)
A rip-roaring tale of wild adventure, amorality, feckless greed and despicable behaviour … His best history to date (Louise Nicholson)
[Dalrymple] is a terrifically good storyteller. He makes the reader see how events unfold and observe the personalities up close. He is widely read both in the primary sources and the historical scholarship. As a result, The Anarchy is one of the best books on Indian history published in a long time
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This book is very well written and the reader does an excellent job. What I did not appreciate is that it follows the "great people" approach to history. It follows the conquest of Bengal step by step and I felt this level of detail was not warranted. I would have liked to hear more about the social and geopolitical background rather than the details of various battles.

A "great people" history of the EIC

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Es wird die Geschichte der Eroberung Indiens gut erzählt und der Autor hat gut Quellen Arbeit geleistet aber die Analyse erinner halt eher an einen zu gekiften College erst Semester als an einen ernsthaften Wissenschaftler.
Es werden klassische Postconolialen topoi wiederholt die vielleicht in den 80ern oder 90er radikal erscheinen wäre heute aber eher peinlich erscheinen
Insgesamt okay aber nicht umwerfend

Naja

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For me, this was a great starting point to learn about the history of British colonialism in India. Teaches you a thing or two about the massive force that is greed.

Massive undertaking

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A fascinating and well written account about corporate greed and power. This is a history is gripping both for its narration and writing but mainly for the absolut preposterous nature of the historical events. The events are well linked to modern issues of international and corporate law. I would strongly recommend to anyone trying to better understand the nature of modern Trans National Corporation's.

I was at times little unsure about what the sources for quotes were and the blend between historical analysis and story writing leans more heavily to the latter. This makes for a thrilling listen but I will have to purchase the hard copy to investigate if the footnotes can further inform me.

Great story, thrilling and informative.

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The epilogue puts it all into perspective: The rise of the East India Company and its many abuses are highly relevant today, not only to experts of colonial history, but to anyone interested in questions of corporate responsibility and government oversight. Well written and very instructive, with an admirable attention to detail. At times, there is maybe too much erudite focus on various infightings and battles, as well as on concrete sums of money or valuables paid, lost or attained in an illegitimate manner. What remains fascinating - and unsettling - is the overall narrative.

Instructive account of corporate irresponsibility

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