![]() When the East India Company was established in 1599 in Tudor England, there was no indication that it was to become the behemoth that it did. This is the story that William Dalrymple tells in his The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. ![]() ![]() In 1608, who would have thought that India – with a population of 150 million and the source of one quarter of the world’s manufacturing – would be devastated by a small joint-stock company from England, a country that had just 5% of India’s population and contributed only 3% of the world’s manufacturing? But over the next 250 years, that is just what happened, as the East India Company steadily drained India’s wealth in goods and precious stones and cash, pouring it into the Company’s coffers for its shareholders. ![]()
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