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Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society)

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 | #1541199 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2000-03-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.94 x5.98l,1.46 | File type: PDF | 428 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Dense, delivers|By Robert C. Thornett|This dense, rich work charts the sea changes in British intelligence in India from early colonies in contact with the Mughals to the East India Company to the Raj. It is very thorough: Bayly both digs in to the meaningful granular level of historical documents and also points out the overarching trends over decades. An excellent source for| |"This...delivers far more than it initially promises. C.A. Bayly has produced a fascinating study that marries social, material, and intellectual history and that has implications far beyond this particular period in Indian history." Margaret MacMillan, Ame

In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies, runners and political secretaries were recruited by the British to secure information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of these informants, and considers how the colonial authorities interpreted and often misinterpreted the information they supplied. As Professor Bayly demonstrates, it was such mis...

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