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

by William Dalrymple

The Mughal war machine swept away the English landing parties as easily as if it were swatting flies; soon the EIC factories at Hughli, Patna, Kasimbazar, Masulipatnam and Vizagapatam had all been seized and plundered, and the English had been expelled