Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies, runners and political secretaries were recruited by the British to secure information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of these informants, and considers how the colonial authorities interpreted and often misinterpreted the information they supplied. As Professor Bayly demonstrates, it was such misunderstandings which ultimately contributed to the failure of the British to anticipate the mutinies of 1857. He argues, however, that, even before this, India's complex systems of communication were challenging the political and intellectual dominance of the European rulers. |
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Índice
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Misinformation and failure on the fringes of empire | 97 |
Between human intelligence and colonial knowledge | 142 |
The Indian ecumene an indigenous public sphere | 180 |
Useful knowledge and godly society c 183050 | 212 |
Colonial controversies astronomers and physicians | 247 |
Colonial controversies language and land | 284 |
The information order the Rebellion of 18579 and pacification | 315 |
Epilogue information surveillance and the public arena after the Rebellion | 338 |
Bibliography | 377 |
Index | 401 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
administration agents Agra Allahabad army Asia astronomical Awadh Banaras bazaar became Benares Bengal Brahmins British Burma Burmese Calcutta Cambridge caste colonial communication Company Company’s court culture debate Delhi Devanagari early ecumene Edmonstone eighteenth century elite Empire English European Friend of India Gurkha harkaras Hindi Hindu Hinduism Hindustani History ibid important Indian indigenous Indo-Muslim information order intellectual intelligence Islam journal Khan King Kirkpatrick knowledge Lahore language later learned letters literary London Lucknow Maratha medicine merchants military missionaries modern Moorcroft Mughal Mughal Empire munshi Muslim native Nawab Nepal networks newspapers newswriters nineteenth century north India officials OIOC Oriental orientalist pandits Papers Patna Persian police political printed Punjab Raja Rajasthan Rebellion recorded religion religious reports Resident revenue royal rulers runners Sanskrit Sayyid Sept Shiva Sikh Singh social society Sufi surveillance texts tion tradition Urdu village western writers
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| Título | Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 Volume 1 de Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society, ISSN 2399-5645 |
| Autores | Christopher Alan Bayly, C. A. Bayly |
| Colaborador | C. A. Bayly |
| Edição | ilustrada, reimpressão |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0521663601, 9780521663601 |
| Número de páginas | 412 páginas |
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