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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... Manuscripts , Oriental and India Office Collection , British Library India Office Records , Oriental and India Office Collection , British Library Oriental and India Office Collection , British Library Records of Fort St. George ( 1911 ) ...
... Leverhulme Trust (2001–2003) and a small grant from the British Academy. It has benefited from the assistance of librarians in the Oriental and India Office Collection and the Rare Books and Manuscript rooms of xiii Acknowledgments.
... Manuscript rooms of the British Library , the Special Collections room and Goldsmiths ' Library of the Univer- sity of London's Senate House Library , the William Andrews Clark Memo- rial Library ( Los Angeles ) , the Huntington Library ...
... manuscript on parchment from Elizabeth I and James I addressing “princes” in the east to the printing of Asian-language texts in Bengal by British Orientalists as part of the forging of empire. Close ex- amination of these forms of ...
... manuscript letters of merchants, the passing of news and ideas among enslaved people, the transportation of botanical specimens, and even the printed papers of scholars.15 In all these cases, questions of im- perial power can be ...
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 |