“We know he died and therefore the incident did happen, but the extent of the tragedy was perhaps exaggerated,” Dalrymple adds. “I have worked quite hard to work that out,” Dalrymple lets slide. Dalrymple laughs at this ironic choice — a drink that played a prominent role in the anarchy that was the EIC has traipsed almost unannounced into our adda. Meenakshi Singh from Bloomsbury India points out that The Anarchy has already sold over 45,000 copies in India and similar numbers in the UK. And that I think is the essence of Dalrymple, the writer: he is perpetually digging for the story in history.

Source: The Telegraph November 16, 2019 14:37 UTC