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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Joshua Ehrlich is Assistant Professor at the University of Macau.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Ehrlich, Joshua (University of Macau) Ehrlich
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9781009367981
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0936798-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, HISTORY / Asia / South / General