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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... Press , Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press , Ltd. , London 2007 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved . Published 2007 Printed in the United States of America 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 I 2 3 4 5 isbn - 13 : 978 ...
... printing, and the procedures of the Royal Society, it may be assumed that this single volume contained significant ... Press, Princeton, NJ); Steven Shapin (1994) A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England ...
... works . 12 Indeed , Boyle's second spell as a Company director was largely taken up with the printing of religious texts in Indian languages with the aim of “ Gospellizing ” the natives . This would save both their souls and the Company's ...
... printing project only when he was certain that his Irish affairs were in good shape after 1688. Other, similar publishing schemes were also ham- strung when dramatic falls in the value of East India Company stock had, as Boyle said, “so ...
... Company was charged with the gathering of taxation and the administration of law in Bengal, Bi- har, and Orissa. The Company introduced printing in Indian languages to northeast India in the service of imperial governance. However, the ...
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 |