The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
‘The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire’ by the great Scottish Historian, William Dalrymple is the story of the East India Company’s rule and plunders in the Indian Subcontinent.
William Dalrymple has a great capability to reflect on the events of European colonization in the Indian subcontinent and being a very worthy Historian and critical raconteur of historical anecdotes, he is astute in captivating the attentions of his readers. ‘The Anarchy’ is one the precedents of his remarkable work on the rise of the East India Company and its exploitation of the Indian people in a vicious way.
The State During the British Raj: Imperial Governance in South Asia 1700-1947
Ilhan Niaz’s ‘The State During the British Raj: Imperial Governance in South Asia 1700-1947,’ takes upon itself to decipher the gradual evolution of institutionalism during the British Raj.
The author also tries to divulge the pattern of impersonalized governance, constitutionalism, civilian supremacy, meritocracy, and bureaucratic administration in the Indian subcontinent.