Mapping an Empire: Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843

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1999
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In this history of the British surveys of India, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques to create and define the spacial image of its Indian empire, and to legitimize its colonialist activities as triumphs of liberal, rational science.

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In this history of the British surveys of India, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques to create and define the spacial image of its Indian empire, and to legitimize its colonialist activities as triumphs of liberal, rational science.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Chicago University Press
Published: 10 May 1999
ISBN 10: 0226184889
ISBN 13: 9780226184883