Nick Robins brings to life the East India Company, Delhi Newsline, 27-Oct-06

Call it a fresh take on history, an effort to draw lessons from the not so glorious past, but the colonial hangover just refuses to fade away. This season, it seems to have resurfaced in literary circles. After William Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857, it’s Nick Robins’ The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (Orient Longman, Rs 295). >>>