To participate via Zoom, please use this link.įrom Maya Jasanoff’s review of The Anarchy on The Guardian: “William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy (is) a graphic retelling of the East India Company’s “relentless rise” from provincial trading company to the pre-eminent military and political power in all of India. (…) Dalrymple’s first achievement in The Anarchy is to render this history an energetic pageturner that marches from the counting house on to the battlefield, exploding patriotic myths along the way. (…) This story needs to be told, he writes, because imperialism persists, yet “it is not obviously apparent how a nation state can adequately protect itself and its citizens from corporate excess”. Due to recent changes in anti-covid19 regulations, the lecture will only take place online. 10, 2019 The often nasty history of the British company that grew to rule India in the 18th century. Noted Scottish historian and writer, art historian and curator, as well as broadcaster and critic William Dalrymplepresents his latest book The Anarchy: The East India Company, corporate violence and the pillage of an Empire (Bloomsbury, 2019). THE ANARCHY THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, CORPORATE VIOLENCE, AND THE PILLAGE OF AN EMPIRE by William Dalrymple RELEASE DATE: Sept. The next lecture in our “Environmental Humanities Seminar and Lecture Series” is on
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