Anna Winterbottom creator Anna Winterbottom text East India Company -- History.-Royal Society (Great Britain) -- History. xxu London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 monographic eng

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xii, 324 pages ;22 cm. 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. 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. /Anna Winterbottom History 954.0294 WIN 9781137380197 International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 181127 20181127145218.0