Rana Safvi Reviews William Dalrymple's New Book, 'The Anarchy' | The Wire

Rana Safvi, an author, historian and translator reviews William Dalrymple's new book, 'The Anarchy'.
Dalrymple's book talks about the rise of the East India Company in the late 1700s.

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[kumarnarayana]

thanks for the reviews!
finished reading the book last month...
excellent, absorbing, as expected from Dalrymple...!

[nigamanandadas]

Role of RSS during British Raj must be identified. How far they have supported Britisher in suppressing the freedom movement and their role in the division of India on religious lines.

[dikshitadamodaran]

With no offense to anybody, this video cannot be called a 'review of the book'.
It was only focussed on her own opinions.

[vishalpansaniya]

There is no point in comparing who ruled India in a better way. The point is that both Mughals and Britishers invaded India to capture the land and masses, they didn't come here to serve the people. They came here for their own benefits and then stayed back. No one at that time would have asked any of these people to stay back as from the history we can clearly make out how cruel they were towards the native people. It's time that you stop glorifying Mughal and British rule. We didn't ask any of these to invade us and make us their slaves. This is like forcefully taking over someone's well-established business without their consent and then telling them to take a back seat because you feel that you have the right to do so. This is totally illogical and doesn't justify your point.

[priyankapaul]

Excellent explanation. The stories of Siraj -ud-Daulah, Mir Zafar and Jagat Seth are what we too read in History. Unfortunately everything was portrayed as per Britishers' wish in books written that era.

[akshay]

I read all comments Before writing, I think trolling is starting in the wire video comment ...bhakt yaha bhi aa Gaye....the wire true Journalist channel...

[politicalanimals]

Mam इस पुस्तक का हिन्दी translation कब आएगा

[rahulsinghparmar]

इसका मुगल प्रेम देखकर इसकी रगों मे दौड़ रहे कट्टर खून को समझा जा सकता है

[rahulsinghparmar]

हमारे लिए तो दोनों ही एक जैसे है... काला इतिहास है

[rahulsinghparmar]

देश मै अकाल था और आगरा मे ताजमहल बन रहा था

[abhinavmishra]

Comment section is interesting....each one is calling another troll....are Bhai koi agar kisi ki baat se ittefaaq rakhe ya ittefaaq na rakhe to use troll nahi bolte

[DharmaanAcademy]

A concise but very informative review. Bundles of thanks for sharing.

[singhprasad]

कोई किसी को नहीं लुटता है. कमजोर होने से यही होता है. क्या भारत का कोयले का खस्ना उठा ले गए. क्या समुन्द्र नदी को ले गए. कौन बड़ा लुटेरा था इस बात पर इतिहाशकसरो को नफरत नहीं फैलाना चाहिए.

[billabuoy]

mujhe laga is book k baare me baat karenge🤣

[knightf]

This enlightened women must be knowing that even during Mughal rule when India accounted for 24% of of world GDP, gini coefficient in india(measure of inequality) was worst in world. Prince and military generals had 60% of nation's wealth. So it's not like during the Mughal rule masses were happy

[Vermaji_]

british divide hindu muslim but about by calling mughal period

[rehanjaved]

I really like her . such videos should go viral so people should know the truth . At that time, it was not about Muslim and Hindu, its about Indians

[amankumarsingh]

Fake Historian hai ye, Mugalo ka jabana gya be .

Tum logo ne Kshatriya o ka itihas mitaya hai .

[althea_is_smokin_hot]

Madam, there was a basic difference between muslim invaders and East India Co.
The objective of muslim invaders was to wipe out hindu religion. You can still hear cries of gazwa e Hind.

[bijoybarman]

Jo apko achchhi lagi wohi achchhi, Jo logo ne bola woh jhuth