Siddharth Roy Kapur’s production house, Roy Kapur Films (RKF) has acquired the rights to ‘The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of The East India Company’ by award-winning historian and best-selling author, William Dalrymple. The book is to be adapted into a global series.

‘The Anarchy’ was listed by former US President Barack Obama as amongst his Top 10 Recommended Books of 2019. Encompassing a period from 1599 to 1802, it traces the relentless rise of The East India Company against the decline and fall of the storied Mughal Empire. It provides a remarkable account of how a provincial trading start-up, run by thirty people from an office only five windows wide in a nondescript London building, became rulers of an entire sub-continent; in the process establishing the richest and most powerful empire in the history of the world.

Since its release, The Anarchy has received rave reviews from international publications.

Roy Kapur intends to put together a diverse international team of writers and showrunners to create a series that will be path-breaking in scale and quality.