About the Book:
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated and captured the young Mughal emperor and forced him to set up in his richest provinces a new government-run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a vast and ruthless private army.
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 corporation.
Three hundred and fifteen years after its founding, with a corporate Mogul now sitting in the White House, the story of the East India Company has never been more current.
About the Author:
William Dalrymple has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the French Prix astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Prize, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, The Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone Crossword Award for non-fiction.
- Weight : 845gm
- Breadth : 15
- Length : 23.5
- Height : 4