Carol Ann Boshier

Forgotten Voices of the British Empire

How Knowledge was Created and Curated in Colonial India and Burma

• Broschiertes 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9781538163238
• ISBN-10: 1538163233
• Artikelnr.: 70243034

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
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