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.
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.
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. In 2019 she was shortlisted for the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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