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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... readers for their insightful comments and encouraging words , and Michael Koplow for his careful and flexible copyediting . Others have helped by not asking too much . Nicholas Robson , Juliette Enser , John ( J.P. ) Horan , John Maher ...
... Chicago Press, Chicago). For Boyle's amanuenses, see Ann Blair (2004) “Focus: scientific readers—an early modernist's perspective,” Isis, 95, pp. 420–30. 2. Robert Boyle (2001) The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, Michael xv Preface.
... reading of English religion as politics, together with the strength of Indian faith and the debating skills of the faithful, made it a vain hope that “Pagan worship” might be overcome by printing and shipping to India what Boyle ...
... readers too (see chapter 6). In Boyle's connections to the English East India Company, and in the let- ters, papers, and books through which they were pursued, can be found the varied forms of “Indian ink” that are the substance of this ...
... reading . This book argues that it matters what the geographies of these forms of Indian ink were : where and how they were produced , what journeys they took , and how and where they were consumed . Overall , Indian Ink takes seriously ...
Contents
1 | |
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 |