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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... Political aspects — India — Bengal— History . 3. Bengal ( India ) —Colonization — History . 4. England — Commerce— History . I. Title . ds465.o43 2007 954′.14031 — dc22 2006032457 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum ...
... political and economic points of view, it was either vital to the nation's prosperity or a significant drain upon national wealth. Many took an interest in it.3 Boyle himself owned East India stock, as did the Royal Society. He also ...
... political concerns that are inseparable from matters of practice. The forms of experimental life, the rules that governed natural philosophers' relationships to one another, and the matters that could or could not be discussed and ...
... politics of knowledge works right down to the most basic level of practice . Which instruments and techniques are used , how they are used , and by whom they are used are also matters of political and social order and are vital to the ...
... political procedures, and the differences of interpretation that they provoked—opens a way into the intellectual and political histories of early modern trade and empire. Concentrating on these different forms of writing brings London ...
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 |