East India Company (EIC) has a long and eventful history in

the Indian subcontinent. They have enormous impact in this

region. Actually, they have done something extraordinary in
this region so that the history of this region cannot be written
without mentioning them. In the book, The Anarchy: The
Relentless Rise of the East India Company, written by
William Dalrymple portrayed the rise of the EIC in Indian
subcontinent. He depicted every event with adequate details.
In this paper, I tried to analyse chapter-09 of the book which
titled “The Corpse of India”.

Chapter-09: “The Corpse of India” evolved with the

expansion strategy of the EIC. The central character of this
chapter was the newly appointed (1898) Governor General of
Calcutta, Richard, Marquess Wellesley. Although he is not
that much remembered in the page of history, he himself
contributed much to change the history of Indian
subcontinent. His mastermind had brought the whole Mughal
Empire under the Company rule. He had a personal vision and
mission to take administrative control of the whole India.
Eventually, he finished this work by 1903. This chapter
mainly depicts the Company and the British success or in a