Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India
by
Tobias Wolffhardt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
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...