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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... imperial governance. However, the advent and administration of this company-state as part of the British empire was no simple matter. The principles, forms, and mechanisms of Company rule were all the subject of controversy both in ...
... imperial worlds are revealed through the development and deployment of the forms of writing that were a crucial element of the Company's operation in both Europe and Asia. These range from royal letters in manuscript on parchment from ...
... imperial power and the written word.1 It is questions of the relationship between writing and the written-about world that have engaged both those who have followed Edward Said in attempting to map out the terrain of colonial discourse ...
... imperial power over people and places . As Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak put it some time ago , “ the concept - metaphor of the ' social text ' is not the reduction of real life to the page of a book . " 4 Also , while there are sig ...
... imperial sites are rendered distinct and different from the metropoli- tan core in terms of what sorts of rights or ... imperial history's renewed engage- ment with geography . Here the specific " local " geographies of imperial sites ...
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 |