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The Anarchy

The Anarchy

byWilliam Dalrymple
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Manish Kapata
5.0 out of 5 starsBritish Raj established only after 1857
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 20 May 2023
From my school days I wonder how Britishers ruled over India for so many years. Andy why one by one we lost battle against them from very Frist battle of Plassey to sepoys 1857 final revolt.
When I read this book I feel that history is not black and white as we had learnt in school but it's colourful and it has hundreds of shades.
Every Indian must read this book to understand how today's India took shape.
Good quality paper and good quality hardbound cover
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vivek thakur
2.0 out of 5 starsCan't say it's unbiased history reporting, colorful reading though.
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 2 November 2022
The choice of words and recurring underlying current of bumbling incompetent natives simply capitulating to a superior white man's prowess betray an almost sympathetic pen to the horrors of the parasitic Brit devasatation of the prosperous land called 16th century India. Makes passing references to the state of economic affairs in Britain (~3% world's GDP, mostly agrarian) as compared to India (25%, manufacturing dominant) in 1599 when the Brit emissary Thomas Roe came around here, it should have been more forcefully laid out how the predators brought about the remarkable reversal of the situation with unbridled avarice and revolting habits of business, but alas that aspect is lost for a more acceptable version where not too much blame is apportioned to the Imperialists for reasons best known to the author. The serpentine obliqueness of in-fashion european morals with which the red faced hat wearers went about usurping territory after territory, and the local moneylenders who aided/abetted them is only mentioned just enough, whereas instances of literary macropsia liberally pepper the book about the incidents that catch the author's fancy, such as Shah Alam's travails, supposed love for India of one Warren Hastings (which somehow didn't prevent his company bahadur from posting a profit even as Bengalis lay strewn in lakhs starving across his office in Kolkata's streets dying of hunger in 1769-70 famine). The repetitive inferences to selected "historians" of the era who eminently betray a obsequious and toning down tendency of the Brits' repugnant actions in favour of the dominant power (eg one Ghulam Hussain Khan's Seir Mutaqherin) is plain disingenuous, sir. It's a rather arrogant and not so clever Abrahamic point of view of looking at things if I may use the description, of insisting on measuring & describing things of other civilizations with one's preconceived metrics without being cognizant of/ acknowledging their unsuitability for such purposes, to give an example, Chatrapati Shivaji maharaj is translated as "lord of the umbrella"...a chattra can only be caricaturized as an umbrella by a jaundiced eye. This book isn't the place to learn history as it happened, but a good place to learn how to make palatable interpretation of it, appealing to a vaster audience than what it would if the bitter truth was told sans dressing up.
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Waani M Altaf
3.0 out of 5 stars Packing very much ordinary not expected from Amazon.
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 8 May 2022
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I like books on history, culture, civilization especially of Central Asia.
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CynicalCare
3.0 out of 5 stars Hardcover stained a bit but print is authentic.
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 2 September 2020
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 As you can see in the video, this is the kind of book cover I got which is laughable and frustrating at the same time. The content of the book are original at least, the images are colorful and original so that's a good thing. Only downside is this cheap cover I got, other than that the book seems fine from inside. Won't be returning it but not satisfied either.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Anarchy
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 11 September 2020
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The book is well researched but too long and could have been shorter. Passages from archives have been reproduced which was not necessary. Also the book covers history related to East India Company and not India as a whole.
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Sahil Singh
3.0 out of 5 stars Loved the book
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 4 January 2023
The book is awesome but the packaging is pathetic, the book cover has been damaged. Please try to send the book in a cardboard.
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Ajit Vishwanath
3.0 out of 5 stars It's a long read BUT
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 18 August 2020
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A good insight into what went into the making of the British Raj
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Raveesh
3.0 out of 5 stars History Lesson - with Trivia
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 14 December 2019
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Had hoped for more insights into the bureaucratic intrigue and less of description of battle set pieces. Had been fond of the author's previous works.
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Hemant M.
3.0 out of 5 stars Normal.
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 23 October 2019
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I like the book but the language of the book is little tough to understand.And the book is too heavy..to carry.
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dominic
3.0 out of 5 stars Rather Cursory Compared with the Author's other Work.
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 13 November 2019
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This latest effort by Mr. Darymple does not measure up to the high standards set by many of his previous works.
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3.0 out of 5 stars More of detail history
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 12 November 2019
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Too much unnecessary details but informative. Gets boring at times.
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Anirban
3.0 out of 5 stars Printing mistakes
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 9 October 2019
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Never saw so many spelling mistakes in any book like this
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