Carol Ann Boshier

Forgotten Voices of the British Empire

How Knowledge was Created and Curated in Colonial India and Burma

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9781538159880
• ISBN-10: 1538159880
• Artikelnr.: 62224646

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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