The Company Quartet | William Dalrymple introduced by Shashi Tharoor | Jaipur Literature Festival | Presented by Mahindra World City
The conquest of India that is the pillar of British Imperialism, is in truth the more sinister story of a dangerously unregulated private company, with a small office and five windows in the city of London, which replaced the Mughal Empire and came to be the first global corporate power. William Dalrymple’s multi-award-winning histories, two decades of meticulous research and masterful narration, are available in the essential collection, The Company Quartet, and trace these two hundred years of tumultuous colonial history, covert political machinations and bloody resistance. It includes four spellbinding books – The Anarchy, White Mughals, Return of a King and The Last Mughal. William Dalrymple, introduced by bestselling author and politician, Shashi Tharoor. A session on his remarkable career, visceral, decades-long study of India, and the process of writing the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of the East India Company.
William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuściński Prize-winning Return of a King. His most recent book, The Anarchy, was long listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019, among others. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and writes regularly for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian. In 2018, he was presented with the prestigious President’s Medal by the British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Shashi Tharoor, a third-term Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of twenty-three books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India.. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, he was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in the category of English Non-Fiction for his book, An Era of Darkness.
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Very fascinating narration and discussion…..
Too much humanization of inhuman and barbaric slavery of a foreign population. East India company was a crime against humanity.
But we are being told to look at an imagined world of kumbaya.
7:0 William Dalrymple excellently describe the conditions of India in brief which lead to anarchy.
William dalryample a brilliant writer but not good orator
I'm a fan of William and enjoy his style of writing.. But somehow i feel that he undermines Hinduism in a very subtle way.. A learned historian like him completely disregards the wealth created by the Sanatani, which the Mughals had come to plunder and loot.
When will netflix make a series out of these?
Would the speakers have been offended, if the camera, instead of being on them, had spent more time on the screen displaying the slides?
small correction to william's initial remark. india did not become rich under mughal rule but rather it was so long before mughals came, In fact that is the reason, mughals came to india in the first place.
Shashi is wasting his time in congress! What a waste! Lol
If you lose your cultural pride for some imposed British false narrative with no decent value system then you will be easily depressed, angry and perverted in mindset. That is why congress is dead party and its vultures like leaders are living of its dead body.