Dalrymple gives us every sword-slash, every scam, every groan and battle cry. ' rampaging, brilliant, passionate history. A brave and stirring narrative of India's eighteenth-century fragmentation' - John Keay, Literary Review 'Combining extensive research, judicious analysis and an acceptable level of outrage, Dalrymple's compelling account will cement his status as the most widely read British writer on India since Kipling. brings to it erudition, deep insight and an entertaining style' - Financial Times 'It is well-trodden territory but Dalrymple. A book of beauty' - Gerard DeGroot, The Times Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India. Telling its story properly demands lush language, not to mention sensitivity towards the country's passionate complexity. The book's real achievement is to take readers to an important and neglected period of British and south Asian history, and to make their trip their not just informative but colourful' - Jason Burke, Observer 'Dalrymple has been at the forefront of the new wave of popular history, consistently producing work that engages with a wider audience through writerly craft, an emphasis on characters and their agency, evocative description of place and time, and the inclusion of long-neglected perspectives. Dalrymple shines a forensic light on the knotty historical relationship between commercial and imperial power' - John McAleer, Evening Standard The Anarchy explodes myths that have accreted around the history of the Company like barnacles on the hulls of its ships. 'A tour de force' - Anne de Courcy, Telegraph 'An energetic pageturner that marches from the counting house on to the battlefield, exploding patriotic myths along the way' - Maya Jasanoff, Guardian

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