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Indian ink : script and print in the making of the English East India Company /
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- Title
- Indian ink : script and print in the making of the English East India Company /
- Author/Creator
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Ogborn, Miles.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publisher Date
- 2007.
- Description
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A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, Indian Ink examines the Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Tracing the history of the Company from its first tentative trading voyages in the early seventeenth century to the foundation of an empire in Bengal in the late eighteenth century
- Note
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Description based upon print version of record.
- Subject
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East India Company--History.
Printing--Political aspects--History.--India--Bengal
Bengal (India)--Colonization--History.
England--Commerce--History.
- Library URL
- 991009829051106306
