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India’s Siddharth Roy Kapur Nabs Rights to William Dalrymple Colonialism Novel ‘The Anarchy’
Naman Ramachandran Prolific Indian producer Siddharth Roy Kapur has acquired audio-visual rights to author and historian William Dalrymple’s bestselling novel on colonialism “The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.”Set during 1599 to 1802, “The Anarchy” traces the ascent of The East India Company against the decline and fall of the Mughal Empire. It provides an account of how a provincial trading start-up, run by thirty people from an office in a nondescript London building, became rulers of an entire sub-continent.“The Anarchy” was recently listed by former U.S.
