“I sold it to a Bollywood company because they have resources now which British companies don’t,” Dalrymple said, adding that he hopes and, perhaps, even expects that this series will be the moment when Bollywood “becomes truly international”.
Either you don’t do it or you do it guns blazing with a cast of a thousand elephants.” The producer is Siddharth Roy Kapur. In the interview, Dalrymple speaks in great detail of the story The Anarchy.ĭalrymple said, “The idea is to do it on a massive scale. Many if not most of the East India Company’s resources came from Indian bankers, in particular the Jagat Seths. At the time, the British army was just 100,000. They are quite grubby stories of corporate greed and corruption.” By 1800, the East India Company controlled an army of 200,000.
As he puts it: “These are not glorious stories of national heroism. It was a corporation “like Google and Twitter”, which acquired control of India through loot and plunder. It wasn’t a mission to bring good governance, leave aside to improve the lives of the Indian people. Dalrymple says the story of the East India Company’s conquest of India is “sinister”. The story of the East India Company’s conquest of India is a quest for profit.
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