THE REST IS HISTORY
AST YEAR, IN THE LATE FALL, I was introduced to William Dalrymple and Olivia Fraser—historian and writer, and artist. I was meeting them for lunch at their farmhouse in the outskirts of Delhi. And away from the madness of city traffic, behind a wall of books stacked on top of a desk,, a riveting account of the East India Company, the world’s first multinational corporation that conquered and divided India.
