Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future: Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India

Livre 4 sur 6: Studies in British and Imperial History

Wolffhardt, Tobias

 
9781785336898: Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future: Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India
ISBN 10 : 1785336894 ISBN 13 : 9781785336898
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2017

Synopsis

For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company consolidated its rule over India, evolving from a trading venture to a colonial administrative force. Yet its territorial gains far outpaced its understanding of the region and the people who lived there, and its desperate efforts to gain knowledge of the area led to the 1815 appointment of army officer Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. This volume carefully reconstructs the life and career of Mackenzie, showing how the massive survey of India that he undertook became one of the most spectacular and wide-ranging knowledge production initiatives in British colonial history.

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À propos de l?auteur

Tobias Wolffhardt is a Research Fellow at the Bundeswehr University Munich. For his research on Colin Mackenzie he was awarded the German Historical Institute London's Wolfgang J. Mommsen Prize in 2010

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1785336894
ISBN 13 
9781785336898
Reliure
Belle reliure
Nombre de pages
356
Coordonnées du fabricant
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