The East India Company and the politics of knowledge /

"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&quo...

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Main Author: Ehrlich, Joshua, 1987- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
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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"--
Physical Description:xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781009367950
1009367951