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

• Four-book paperback box set by William Dalrymple
• Presented in a slipcase
• Collection chronicling the rise and fall of the East India Company
• Based on two decades of research, as described in the source
• Spans over two hundred years of colonial history, political machinations and resistance

Synopsis

This collection examines how the East India Company, a private and “dangerously unregulated” enterprise based in London, began seizing territory in India in the mid-eighteenth century. It follows the disintegration of the Mughal empire and the emergence of the East India Company as a global corporate power, as presented in the source.