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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