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The East India Company was established in London in the time of Shakespeare. But from the 1700s it created the greatest corporate takeover of all time.
Seeking to dominate the global trade in spices, textiles and eventually opium, a group of white men eventually became the military and political rulers of India.
They ruled over hundreds of millions of people, and because they were a public company, they felt no responsibility to the people they 'governed', only to their London shareholders.
Eventually they created famine, chaos and bled the country dry.
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The Anarchy is published by Bloomsbury
First broadcast November 2019
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