The Anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company. William Dalrymple. 2020.

In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transforms itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business.