East India Company

[Roy Cross]

I thought this was a brilliant talk by William Dalrymple about his book,
'The Anarchy', an  alternative history of the East India Company and the
British Empire more generally. Along the way, you learn the origins of
words and phrases such as 'loot', 'nob' and 'bite the bullet':
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/hayfestival_event72
It was only available for 24 hours free to view, I think; you'll need to
buy a GBP 10 annual licence for the Hay Player to view now.

Roy

On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 11:21, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/06/11/british-pillage-of-india/
>
> I didn't know that Clive of India committed suicide:
>
> 'He had, Samuel Johnson wrote, “acquired his fortune by such crimes that
> his consciousness of them impelled him to cut his own throat.”'
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