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Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Studies in British and Imperial History

Wolffhardt

Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future

Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-689-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Studies in British and Imperial History

ISBN: 978-1-78533-689-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books


For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company consolidated its rule over India, evolving from a trading venture to a colonial administrative force. Yet its territorial gains far outpaced its understanding of the region and the people who lived there, and its desperate efforts to gain knowledge of the area led to the 1815 appointment of army officer Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. This volume carefully reconstructs the life and career of Mackenzie, showing how the massive survey of India that he undertook became one of the most spectacular and wide-ranging knowledge production initiatives in British colonial history.

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List of Illustrations

A Note on the Text and Sources

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Scottish Experiences

Chapter 2. Building an East Indian Career

Chapter 3. On the Route: From Military Imperatives to the Tasks of Government

Chapter 4. Mackenzie’s Survey

Chapter 5. Mapping History, Producing Territory

Chapter 6. Knowledge for the Future

Chapter 7. The Past in the Present

Chapter 8. The Surveyor General

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index


Wolffhardt, Tobias
Tobias Wolffhardt is a Research Fellow at the Bundeswehr University Munich. For his research on Colin Mackenzie he was awarded the German Historical Institute London’s Wolfgang J. Mommsen Prize in 2010

Tobias Wolffhardt is a Research Fellow at the Bundeswehr University Munich. For his research on Colin Mackenzie he was awarded the German Historical Institute London’s Wolfgang J. Mommsen Prize in 2010



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