Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India CompanyA commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, Indian Ink examines the Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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... Oxford W. N. Sainsbury ( ed . ) ( 1862 ) Calendar of State Papers . Colonial Series : East Indies , China and Japan , 1513–1616 ( Longman , Green , Longman & Roberts , London ) . Citations are to entry numbers . W. N. Sainsbury ( ed ...
... Oxford) vol. 4: Kalendarium, 1673– 1689, pp. 297–98. Boyle is quoted in Michael Hunter (ed.) (1994) Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends with a Fragment of William Wotton's Lost Life of Boyle (William Pickering, London) p. lxviii. 6 ...
... (Oxford University Press, Oxford); and Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer (eds.) (1993) Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia). 2. Edward W ...
... Oxford ) . 4. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ( 1988 ) " Subaltern studies : deconstructing historiography , " in Guha and Spivak , Selected Subaltern Studies , p . 5. See also C. A. Bayly ( 1996 ) Empire and Information : Intelligence ...
... Oxford. 14. For example, Bayly, Empire and Information; D. Graham Burnett (2000) Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado (University of Chicago Press, Chicago); Kapil Raj (2000) “Colonial encounters ...
Contents
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Royal Letters and the Mercantile Encounter | 27 |
Accounting for Collectivity Order and Authority at Fort St George | 67 |
Print Politics and the Company in England | 104 |
Print and Prices on Exchange Alley | 157 |
6 The Work of Empire in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | 198 |
Postscript | 266 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 305 |
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Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company Miles Ogborn No preview available - 2007 |