Forgotten Voices of the British Empire - How Knowledge Was Created and Curated in Colonial India and Burma

This study investigates the contribution made by outsiders in accumulating knowledge from the days of the East India Company until the early twentieth century, when photography became an important tool for recording information.

List of contents

Introduction
1.Spheres of Knowledge
2. Indigenous Informants and Go-Betweens
3. The Botanical Surveys of Francis Hamilton Buchanan
4. Francis Whyte Ellis: Colonial Policy
5. William Johnson and the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India
6. Clement Williams: A British Merchant at the Court of King Mindon
7. William Marshman Bailey: Political Officer and Collector
8. J. P. Mills: Collecting and Photographing the Naga Peoples of Northeast Burma
9. The Last Word from the Women of the Empire
Afterword
Bibliography

About the author

Carol Ann Boshier is Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Her research focuses on the constraints and possibilities offered by social and intellectual exchanges between colonized and colonizing elites.

Summary

This study investigates the contribution made by outsiders in accumulating knowledge from the days of the East India Company until the early twentieth century, when photography became an important tool for recording information.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Ann Boshier, Boshier Carol Ann
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2024
• EAN: 9781538163238
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6323-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Political science & theory, Political science and theory