Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Preface
- Glossary
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Prologue: surveillance and communication in early modern India
- 2 Political intelligence and indigenous informants during the conquest of India, c. 1785–1815
- 3 Misinformation and failure on the fringes of empire
- 4 Between human intelligence and colonial knowledge
- 5 The Indian ecumene: an indigenous public sphere
- 6 Useful knowledge and godly society, c. 1830–50
- 7 Colonial controversies: astronomers and physicians
- 8 Colonial controversies: language and land
- 9 The information order, the Rebellion of 1857–9 and pacification
- 10 Epilogue: information, surveillance and the public arena after the Rebellion
- Conclusion: ‘Knowing the country’
- Bibliography
- Index
List of abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Preface
- Glossary
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Prologue: surveillance and communication in early modern India
- 2 Political intelligence and indigenous informants during the conquest of India, c. 1785–1815
- 3 Misinformation and failure on the fringes of empire
- 4 Between human intelligence and colonial knowledge
- 5 The Indian ecumene: an indigenous public sphere
- 6 Useful knowledge and godly society, c. 1830–50
- 7 Colonial controversies: astronomers and physicians
- 8 Colonial controversies: language and land
- 9 The information order, the Rebellion of 1857–9 and pacification
- 10 Epilogue: information, surveillance and the public arena after the Rebellion
- Conclusion: ‘Knowing the country’
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Empire and InformationIntelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997