The Company Quartet 4 Book Set: The Anarchy, White Mughals, Return of a King and The Last Mughal

The Company Quartet is a four-book paperback collection from historian William Dalrymple, described as multi-award-winning and bestselling. Across the set, Dalrymple chronicles the rise and fall of the East India Company, reframing the familiar idea of Britain “conquering” India by focusing on the role of a private company headquartered in a small London office. Drawing on two decades of research and narrative history, the quartet traces how the Mughal empire, said here to have generated just under half the world’s wealth, disintegrated and was replaced by what is described as the first global corporate power. Presented in a stylish slipcase, this box set brings together four individual volumes spanning more than two hundred years of colonial history, political machinations and resistance. Included titles The Anarchy White Mughals Return of a King The Last Mughal Key details ...