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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... Language ( 1778 ) 209 18 Nathaniel Brassey Halhed in 1771 211 19 Charles Wilkins , c . 1830 211 20 Script and print in A Grammar of the Bengal Language ( 1778 ) 246 21 The printing of a phalā in A Grammar of the Bengal Language ( 1778 ) ...
... languages with the aim of “ Gospellizing ” the natives . This would save both their souls and the Company's reputation , 7. Correspondence of Robert Boyle , vol . 2 : 1662–1665 , Nathaniel Foxcroft to Boyle , 29 November 1664 ; vol . 3 ...
... languages. Vol. 6: 1684–1691, Edward Bernard to Boyle, 1 August 1689. 14. Correspondence of Robert Boyle, vol. 4: 1668–1677, Boyle to Robert Thompson, 5 March 1677, and Thomas Hyde to Boyle, 16 October 1677. 15. Correspondence of Robert ...
... languages spoken there, and not Malay. Moreover, that there were “very few English who can speake the Languages,” and no suitable “Vocabularies.” Master also doubted that the chaplains currently in India had any enthusiasm for mak- ing ...
... language texts in Bengal by British Orientalists as part of the forging of empire. Close ex- amination of these forms of writing—reconstructing their material forms and the conditions of their production, the ways in which they were ...
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 |