In his most ambitious book to date, bestselling historian William Dalrymple tells the timely and cautionary tale of the rise of the East India Company and one of the most supreme acts of corporate violence in world history In August 1765 the East India Company defeated and captured the young Mughal emperor and forced him to set up in his richest provinces a new government run b...(展开全部)

In his most ambitious book to date, bestselling historian William Dalrymple tells the timely and cautionary tale of the rise of the East India Company and one of the most supreme acts of corporate violence in world history In August 1765 the East India Company defeated and captured the young Mughal emperor and forced him to set up in his richest provinces a new government run b...(展开全部)

The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the increasingly important role played by the Company in Indian life. And they mirror significant shifts in British policy and attitudes toward India. The Company's story ...(展开全部)

勒内•格鲁塞（1885－1952），法国著名历史学家、亚洲史学界泰斗。1885年生于格勒诺贝尔，毕业于蒙彼利埃大学历史系，1925年出任吉美国立亚洲艺术博物馆助理监管人及杂志《亚洲学报》秘书，1993年任色努斯基博物馆馆长及亚洲艺术藏品负责人，1946年成为法兰西学院院士，1952年病逝于巴黎。他一生潜心研究东方历史与文化，著述甚丰，其中尤以《成吉思汗》《草原帝国》为著名，是重要的世界历史名著。 常任侠，我国著名的文史专家，尤其在印度艺术史及相关文物的搜集与研究方面享有盛名。