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The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
William Dalrymple
This was an interesting book. I do believe that Robert Caro has spoiled me when it comes to nonfiction works. I would like everything to be as beautiful and exquisitely written as his prose. This is not to say that Darlymple does a bad job, it's just that sometimes he gets so bogged down in the minutiae that I struggle to understand why I care about the broader trends and historical moments depicted. I wish he did a better job of taking a step back and explaining the broader historical contexts of individual moments. That said, I do think the book does a very good job of recounting this rise of the East India company and making a very strong point about the Company's overall effect on India and what it represented for the modern era. It is IN-sane that it represented the very first publicly traded stock company and I do not think that people appreciate how dramatic of a change it was. The descriptions of the famine of Bengal were moving, as well as, the slow moving collapse of the Mughals
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