Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau)

The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this original and deeply researched account, Ehrlich transforms the histories of the East India Company and British India. He reveals that, for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the pursuit of knowledge played a fundamental role in the Company's politics and ideology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781009367981
• ISBN-10: 1009367986
• Artikelnr.: 72880698

Autorenporträt

Joshua Ehrlich is Assistant Professor at the University of Macau.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on the text
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Warren Hastings and the idea of conciliation
2. Conciliation after Hastings
3. The politics of the College of Fort William
4. Scholar-officials and the company state in the early nineteenth century
5. Education and the persistence of the company state
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.