The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781009367950 / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str.

Joshua (University of Macau) Ehrlich

Opis

Ehrlich reveals how the East India Company used its commitment to knowledge to justify its commercial and political power.

Recenzje

'In a work as ambitious as it is meticulous, Joshua Ehrlich reveals the British conquest of India to have been the work not only of the 'merchant' and the 'sovereign' but also of the scholar - as much the product of advancing armies and revenue officials as of the translators, historians, surveyors, libraries, learned societies, colleges, gardens, and many more that made the case for how and why to rule that expanding empire. This book offers a compelling account of how debates over scholarship and education shaped the East India Company state, as well as a thought-provoking reflection on the ways in which the power to create and command knowledge has been central to ideologies of global corporate power, from the eighteenth century to today's 'information economy.'' Philip J. Stern, Duke University

Spis treści

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.