But his more novel and arguably greater achievement lies in the way he places the company's rise in the turbulent political landscape of late Mughal India.”- The Guardian Dalrymple's spirited, detailed telling will be reason enough for many readers to devour The Anarchy. “An energetic pageturner that marches from the counting house on to the battlefield, exploding patriotic myths along the way. Dalrymple's book is an excellent example of popular history-engaging, readable, and informative.”- National Review The reader will find plenty that echoes in modern India.”- The Economist Dalrymple sails through this story in fine style. “A great story told in fabulous detail with interesting, if at times utterly rapacious or incompetent, characters populating it.”- NPR By quoting extensively from the company's own voluminous records, private letters, and diaries, Persian-language sources, eyewitness accounts penned by an insightful local historian, and other reports, Dalrymple creates a 'You Are There' environment for the reader that makes the book hard to put down.”- Washington Independent Review of Books Dalrymple has taken us to the limit of what page-turning history can be and do.”- Los Angeles Review of Books Delightful passages abound, including of the duel between Warren Hastings and Philip Francis, Shah Alam as 'the sightless ruler of a largely illusory empire,' and action-packed scenes of battle. Drawing richly from sources in multiple languages, The Anarchy is gorgeously adorned with luminous images representing a range of perspectives. It is shot through with an unappeasable moral passion.”- The Wall Street Journal

The Anarchy is not simply a gripping tale of bloodshed and deceit, of unimaginable opulence and intolerable starvation. He has no rival as a narrative historian of the British in India. Dalrymple gives us every sword-slash, every scam, every groan and battle cry. was the most advanced capitalist organization in the world. “As William Dalrymple shows in his rampaging, brilliant, passionate history, The Anarchy, the East India Co. Dalrymple's book worth reading by everyone.”- The New York Times Book Review the greatest virtue of this disturbingly enjoyable book is perhaps less the questions it answers than the new ones it provokes about where corporations fit into the world, both then and now. Dalrymple has influenced the scholarly as well as the popular understanding of South Asian history through his use of both European and Indian sources, thus uniting the halves of a previously bisected whole.”- The New York Review of Books “A well-known historian both in his native Britain and his adoptive India.

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