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The Company Quartet: The Anarchy, White Mughals, Return of a King and The Last Mughal

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Gorgeous, spellbinding and important
Sunday Times
Rampaging, brilliant, passionate history
Wall Street Journal
Magnificent Dalrymple has uncovered sources never used before
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Vivid unmatched revolutionary humane
Sunday Telegraph
____________________________ From multi-award-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple, a four-book collection chronicling the extraordinary story of the 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. Bringing together two decades of meticulous research and masterful narration, The Company Quartet tells the remarkable story of how the Mughal empire, which then generated just under half the worlds wealth, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the first global corporate power: the East India Company. William Dalrymples epic, bestselling and multi-award-winning histories are now available in this magnificent paperback box set, presented in a stylish slipcase. 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.
PRIZES & AWARDS:
Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History
Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize
Winner of the Hemingway Prize
Winner of the Ryzard Kapuscinski Prize
Winner of the Vodafone/Crossword Book award
Winner of the Scottish Book of the Year Prize
Winner of the Arthur Ross Medal of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Three times longlisted and once shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford
Winner of the Sykes Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Winner of the President's Medal of the British Academy
Finalist for the Cundil Prize for History
O autorze
William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of
In Xanadu
,
City of Djinns
,
From the Holy Mountain
,
The Age of Kali
,
White Mughals
,
The Last Mughal
and, most recently,
Nine Lives
. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the
Sunday Times
Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage, the Hemingway Prize, the French Prix d'Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone Crossword Award and has three times been longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2012 he was appointed Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in Humanities at Princeton University. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.