Forgotten voices of the British empire : how knowledge was created and curated in colonial India and Burma
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Forgotten voices of the British empire : how knowledge was created and curated in colonial India and Burma
Rowman & Littlefield, c2022
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-272) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study 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. It focuses on heterogeneous voices on the periphery, who interacted with the indigenous population to produce knowledge in original or unexpected ways that extended beyond the limits prescribed by the term 'colonial.' Largely unrecognized today, their endeavors to satisfy their own intellectual curiosity, or improve their material circumstances, produced a perspective on colonial life that stripped away conventions; where their ordinary everyday experiences sometimes became extraordinary, as they forged new networks throughout the subcontinent and beyond its frontiers. Their journeys and experiences offer a discursive historical construct as significant as official reports, censuses, and surveys, and contribute towards our understanding of the diverse creative processes through which intellectual histories of the colonial state were constructed.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Spheres of Knowledge
Chapter 2: Indigenous Informants and Go-Betweens
Chapter 3: The Botanical Surveys of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Chapter 4: Francis Whyte Ellis: 'A Nearly Perfect Embodiment of Orientalism as Colonial Policy'
Chapter 5: 'The White Pundit': William Johnson and the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India
Chapter 6: Dr Clement Williams: A British Merchant at the Court of King Mindon
Chapter 7: William Marshman Bailey: 'The Right Sort' of Political Officer and Collector
Chapter 8: J. P. Mills ICS: Collecting and Photographing the Naga Peoples of Northeast Burma
Chapter 9: The Last Word from the Women of the Empire
Afterword
Bibliography
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