Forgotten voices of the British empire : how knowledge was created and curated in colonial India and Burma / Carol Ann Boshier.
By: Boshier, Carol Ann [author.].
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BookLanguage: eng.Publisher: United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022Description: xi, 288 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781538159897.Other title: How knowledge was created and curated in colonial India and Burma.Subject(s): British -- India -- History | British -- Burma -- History | Scientific expeditions -- India | Scientific expeditions -- Burma | Ethnological expeditions -- India | Ethnological expeditions -- Burma | Imperialism and science | India -- Civilization -- 1765-1947DDC classification: 954.03 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 954.03 R0 British Empire through buildings : | 954.03 R1 India, Ireland and anti- imperial struggle : | 954.03 R2 Doolally Sahib and the black Zamindar : | 954.03 R2 Forgotten voices of the British empire : | 954.03 R2 Colonial subjugation of India / | 954.03 R2.1 From discovery to the civilisational mission : | 954.03 R2.2 From discovery to the civilisational mission : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spheres of knowledge -- Indigenous informants and go-betweens -- The botanical surveys of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton -- Francis Whyte Ellis : 'a nearly perfect embodiment of orientalism as colonial policy' -- 'The white pundit' : William Johnson and the great trigonometrical survey of India -- Dr Clement Williams : a British merchant at the court of King Mindon -- William Marshman Bailey : 'the right sort' of political officer and collector ICS : collecting and photographing the Naga peoples of North-East Burma -- The last word from the women of the empire.
"Forgotten Voices of the British Empire investigates the contribution made by outsiders in accumulating knowledge from the days of the East India Company until the early twentieth century, when photography became an important tool for recording information"--
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