Publisher's Synopsis
From multi-award-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple, a four-book collection chronicling the thrilling rise and fall of the East India Company.
We still talk about the British conquering India, but that phrase disguises a much more sinister reality. For it was not the British government that began seizing chunks of India in the mid-eighteenth century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in the city of London.
Comprised of four individual books - The Anarchy, White Mughals, Return of a King and The Last Mughal - this essential collection spans over two hundred years of tumultuous colonial history, covert political machinations and bloody resistance.
PRAISE FOR THE COMPANY QUARTET:
'Gorgeous, spellbinding and important' - Sunday Times
'Rampaging, brilliant, passionate history' - Wall Street Journal
'Magnificent … Dalrymple has uncovered sources never used before' - Guardian
'Vivid … unmatched … revolutionary … humane' - Sunday Telegraph