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The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. By William Dalrymple. pp. 557. London, Bloomsbury, 2019.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2020

Tom Young
Tom Young*
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The British Museum tyoung@britishmuseum.org
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , October 2020 , pp. 771 - 774
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1 Dalrymple, William, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, (London, 2019), p. 397Google Scholar.

2 Ibid., p. 394.

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5 Ibid., p. xxxi.

6 Ibid., p. xxxii.

7 Ibid., p. 291.

8 Ibid., p. 31.

9 Ibid., p. 42.

10 Ibid., p. xvii.

11 Ibid., p. xxxi.

12 The ‘Aligarh School’ famously saw a brittle Mughal superstructure fragmenting as a result of pressure from below. See: Habib, Irfan, The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556–1707, (1963, 3rd edition, New Delhi, 2014)Google Scholar.

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23 Ibid., p.xxvii.