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The East India Company and the politics of knowledge / Joshua Ehrlich, University of Macau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ehrlich, Joshua, 1987- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East India Company--History.
- East India Company.
- Elite (Social sciences)--India.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Learning and scholarship--Political aspects--History.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Education--India--History--19th century.
- Education.
- India--Colonization.
- India.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- Colonization.
- Learning and scholarship--Political aspects.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Warren Hastings and the idea of conciliation
- Conciliation after Hastings
- The politics of the College of Fort Williams
- Scholar-officials and the company state in the early nineteenth century
- Education and the persistence of the company state.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ehrlich, Joshua, 1987- East India Company and the politics of knowledge
- ISBN:
- 9781009367950
- 1009367951
- OCLC:
- 1362510260
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