Hybrid knowledge in the early East India Company world /Anna Winterbottom
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TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002Series: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies seriesPublication details: London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016.Description: xii, 324 pages ;22 cmISBN: - 9781137380197
- 954.0294 WIN
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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.
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