William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple is a British historian and writer. “The Anarchy” explores the East India Company's expansion and its role in the transformation of India.

Books by William Dalrymple

The Anarchy

William Dalrymple

The Anarchy follows the East India Company’s transformation from a trading venture into the power that displaced Mughal authority in India. It asks how finance, local alliances, military force, revenue extraction, and imperial legitimacy made corporate rule possible—and what famine, war, regulation, and resistance reveal about private power.

8 chapters