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Anna Winterbottom

Hybrid knowledge in the early East India Company world /Anna Winterbottom - London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016. - xii, 324 pages ;22 cm. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. .

Introduction: Patronage and the Politics of Knowledge, 1660-1720 --
1. Curious Collectors and Infamous Interlopers : Samuel Baron and the EIC settlements in Southeast and East Asia --
2. Linguistic Landscapes : Early English studies of Malay --
3. Toleration and Translation : English versions of two Hindu texts from Bengal --
4. Botanical and Medical Networks : Madras through the collections of two EIC surgeons --
5. Bio-prospecting and Experimenting : Producing and Using an Historical Relation of Ceylon --
6. Transportation and Transplantation : Slave Knowledge and Company Plantations.


Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new reading of the English East India Company 1660-1720. It shows how innovative works covering natural history, ethnography, theology, linguistics, medicine, and agriculture - were created amid early modern struggles for supremacy in Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic.

ISBN: 9781137380197

Publisher. No.: International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002

Subjects--Topical Terms:
History

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
East India Company -- History.--Royal Society (Great Britain) -- History.

Dewey Class. No.: 954.0294 WIN