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书籍介绍
本书讲述了东印度公司在印度的历史。在作者看来，英国征服印度，更准确的说法应该是东印度公司——一个以伦敦某个只有五个窗户的办公室为总部的不受制约的私人公司，来实现的。1600年12月31日，英格兰女王伊丽莎白一世授予该公司王家特许状，给予它在印度贸易的特权。实际上这个特许状给予了它对东印度贸易的垄断权。在100多年的时间里，东印度公司就从一个商业贸易企业变成印度的实际主宰者，不仅从事贸易，还拥有军队，在将势力扩张到整个南亚次大陆后更是对其进行殖民统治。然而，权力变大之后，它对英国的政治体制也进行了侵蚀，特别是英国议会受其影响最大，其中一些正直的议员对其发起了挑战和限制。而在印度，东印度公司的残酷剥削以及对当地宗教信仰和社会文化的漠视，导致于1857年爆发了席卷印度全境的兵变行动，东印度公司的土著部队对该公司倒戈。1858年，它最终被解除行政权力。
本书是一部对商业力量与王权关系的研究之作。它审视了公司如何对政治，以及政治如何对公司施加影响。它也考察了权力和金钱如何滋生腐败，以及商业和殖民化的方式为何以及如何总是步调一致。西方帝国主义和企业资本主义总是一同诞生，且都是现代世界诞生之源。
AI导读
核心看点
- 揭示东印度公司如何从贸易实体演变为殖民统治者
- 剖析商业资本与王权博弈，以及权力失控的无政府状态
- 展现莫卧儿帝国崩溃后印度次大陆的混乱与重组历程
适合谁读
- 对英国殖民史、东印度公司及印度近代史感兴趣的读者
- 关注商业帝国崛起、政商关系及资本主义起源的读者
- 喜欢达尔林普尔叙事风格及甲骨文丛书的历史爱好者
读前提醒
- 人物众多且地名复杂，建议配合地图阅读以理清脉络
- 叙事偏向故事化，宏观历史分析较少，需自行梳理逻辑
- 部分章节过渡跳跃，需耐心适应作者独特的行文节奏
读者共识
- 史料丰富细节生动，但被批评为流水账，分析深度不足
- 选题极佳但结构松散，详略失当，阅读体验两极分化
- 虽为通俗读物，但揭示了企业资本主义与帝国主义的共生
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "At that time England was a relatively impoverished, largely agricultural country, which had spent almost a century at war with itself over the most divisive subject of the time: religion. In the course of this, in what seemed to many of its wisest minds an act of wilful self-harm, the English had un"
- "In the absence of firm Mughal control, the East India Company also realised it could now enforce its will in a way that would have been impossible a generation earlier... The Company’s emissary, Venetian adventurer Niccolao Manucci, who was now living as a doctor in Madras, replied that the EIC had "
- "Peace, however, now proved more elusive: the dogs of war, once let slip, were not easily brought to heel. Rather than disbanding his new sepoy regiments, Dupleix decided to hire them out to his Indian allies, and to use them to gain both land and political influence."
- "...weak Indian rulers of fragmented post-Mughal states offered large blocks of territory, or land revenue, to the different European Companies in return for military support. The warfare that followed, which usually involved very small Company armies, was often incoherent and inconclusive, but it co"
- "The Moors are indolent, luxurious, ignorant and cowardly beyond all conception … The soldiers, if they deserve that name, have not the least attachment to their Prince, he can only expect service from them who pays them best; but it is a matter of great indifference to them whom they serve; and I am"
- "Fortune seems determined to accompany me to the last ... Every object, every sanguine wish is upon the point of being completely fulfilled, and I am arrived at the pinnacle of all that I covet, by affirming the Company shall, in spite of all the envy, malice, faction and resentment, acknowledge they"
- "Throughout 1773, Hastings worked with extraordinary energy. He unified currency systems, ordered the codification of Hindu laws and digests of Muslim law books, reformed the tax and customs system, fixed land revenue and stopped the worst oppression being carried out on behalf of private traders by "
- "From his early twenties, his letters had been full of outrage at the unprincipled way Company officials were exploiting India and mistreating Indians. He had many close Indian friends and regarded himself as an honourable champion of justice for the people of Bengal. He had railed and campaigned aga"
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英国历史学家、作家威廉·达尔林普尔的洋洋巨著《无政府：东印度公司的崛起》一书，与其说是细数一个小小的贸易公司如何崛起为帝国主义霸主，不如说是时值处于无政府状态的一个王朝如何没落毁灭。著述时间跨度从1599年直至1847年近三个世纪，从中描述了东印度公司从筹建到关张的一段历史，以及印度（莫卧儿帝国）被征服劫掠直至灭亡的一段历史。这是一部饱含着残酷、血腥和无耻的荒诞寓言，几乎令人难以置信。一家伦敦公司，不管它是多么冷酷无情和侵略成性，竟然能征服曾经如此强大，对自己的力量、辉煌与美丽如此自信的莫卧儿帝国。从中，我们可以深刻地了解到，从16世纪开始攫取印度并将其殖民化的，只是一家以营利为目的的私营公司。而莫卧儿帝国，也因自身的混乱、腐败和不堪，使消亡成为必然。
出乎意料的好读，这哥们游记写得好，写历史也相当在行，东印度公司的崛起与莫卧儿帝国的衰落相互交织，简直就是大清朝遭遇的前奏，东印度公司这种怪胎的出现和英国人的重商主义密不可分，难以想象作者笔下富饶的孟加拉现在是全世界最贫穷的国家之一。
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这是一本关于东印度公司的书，书中非常详细的描述了东印度公司的兴衰，有战争、有繁荣。东印度公司作为“一个披着商人外衣的国家”，没有政府，却控制了全球贸易的将近一半，是历史上非常成功的一个企业。书的内容很精彩，仿佛看了一场大型连续剧，除了文字内容以外，书中的插图也非常精彩，装帧很精美。
读完脑海里都是《王公之泪》的影子，明明作者不一样，但感觉风格很像。
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