The author also answers questions about the language/languages in which the TV series will be made, the cast that is being considered and the locations that have already been visited and recced. Lord Wellesley (the elder brother of the Duke of Wellington) in the third. He also expects this could run for three full series.ĭalrymple said a single British character will leave a dominant stamp on each of the three series. Brock has said the series will have “the scale of Game of Thrones (and) the internecine plotting of Succession”. The scriptwriter is Jeremy Brock, a BAFTA winner, whose earlier work includes The Last King of Scotland and Mrs. “I sold it to a Bollywood company because they have resources now which British companies don’t,” Dalrymple said, adding that he hopes and, perhaps, even expects that this series will be the moment when Bollywood “becomes truly international”. Either you don’t do it or you do it guns blazing with a cast of a thousand elephants.” The producer is Siddharth Roy Kapur. In the interview, Dalrymple speaks in great detail of the story The Anarchy.ĭalrymple said, “The idea is to do it on a massive scale. Many if not most of the East India Company’s resources came from Indian bankers, in particular the Jagat Seths. At the time, the British army was just 100,000. They are quite grubby stories of corporate greed and corruption.” By 1800, the East India Company controlled an army of 200,000. As he puts it: “These are not glorious stories of national heroism.

It was a corporation “like Google and Twitter”, which acquired control of India through loot and plunder. It wasn’t a mission to bring good governance, leave aside to improve the lives of the Indian people. Dalrymple says the story of the East India Company’s conquest of India is “sinister”. The story of the East India Company’s conquest of India is a quest for profit.

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