The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

by William Dalrymple

Two years later, the EIC tried again. The head of the Armagon factory, Francis Day, negotiated with the local governor of what was left of the waning and fragmented South Indian Vijayanagara empire for the right to build a new EIC fort above a fishing village called Madraspatnam,

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