CES: Knowledge and the East India Company State, 1785-1795 w/ Josh Ehrlich

Date: 

Friday, May 4, 2018, 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Goldman Room

 

CES Dissertation Workshop:

SPEAKER

Joshua Ehrlich

PhD Student in History and CES Graduate Student Affiliate, Harvard University

Contact:

 

Maxim Botstein

mbotstein@g.harvard.edu

 

 

The last years of the eighteenth century have been seen as both a golden age of British Indological research and a period of intense political pressure on the East India Company. These were the years of the polymath William Jones's research in Sanskrit and Indo-Persian, the MP Edmund Burke's prosecution of former governor-general Warren Hastings, and the present governor-general Charles Cornwallis's overhaul of the Company's Bengal administration. The relations of these landmark developments with each other and with the politics of knowledge comprises the subject of this chapter.

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