What links the Mayflower, Mexican deindustrialisation, and Tilda Swinton to the East India Company? How was the English takeover of a subcontinent like a Start Up rebrand? Was the fall of a nation caused by a coup between bankers?
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Three hundred and fifteen years after its founding, the story of the East India Company has never been more relevant: join a master storyteller and historian for the cautionary tale of the first global corporate power, and the supreme act of colonial violence that changed the world forever.
William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s great historians on India and Afghanistan. He has featured on Intelligence Squared, Poonam Joshi, Brookings Institution, Viral Videos, Asia Society, Rang de Basanti, Jaipur Literature Festival, The Quint, Sorabh Pant, Beyond Borders Scotland, MOJO Story, ThePrint, The Long Hol, Spirit Box, Discovery of India, YalenusCollege, NDTV and IVM Podcasts. His books include: In Xanadu, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi, From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond, and The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.
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