Bestselling historian and author William Dalrymple’s latestbook “The Anarchy”, based on the rise of the East India Company, willrelease on September 10, publisher Bloomsbury announced on Tuesday.
Calling it his “most ambitious and riveting book todate”, Bloomsbury revealed that the book tells “how one of theworld’s most magnificent empires of the Mughals, disintegrated and was replacedby a dangerously unregulated private company”.
Dalrymple, who has written books like “WhiteMughals” and “The Last Mughal”, has shared three differentcovers of the book for the UK, the US and India, on his Twitter handle.
The award-winning author is the co-director of the JaipurLiterature Festival (JLF) along with Namita Gokhale.
About the East India Company, which the publisher touts asthe “first global corporate power”, it recounted that the companybecame an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multi-national business.
“In less than half a century it had trained up aprivate security force of around 260,000 men – twice the size of the BritishArmy – and had subdued an entire subcontinent, conquering first Bengal andfinally, in 1803, the Mughal capital of Delhi itself,” the publisher said.
The book is available for pre-order on e-commerce sites.