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Mapping an empire the geographical construction of British India, 1765-1843

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  • "From James Rennell's survey of Bengal (1765-71) to George Everest's retirement in 1843 as surveyor general of India, geography served in the front lines of the British East India Company's territorial and intellectual conquest of South Asia. In this history of the British surveys of India, focusing especially on the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS) undertaken by the Company, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques not only to create and define the spatial image of its Indian empire but also to legitimate its colonialist activities as triumphs of liberal, rational science bringing "civilization" to irrational, mystical, and despotic Indians."

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  • "Mapping an empire : the geographical construction of British India, 1765-1843"
  • "Mapping an Empire : the geographical construction of British India, 1765-1843"
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  • "Mapping an Empire : the geographical construction of British India 1765-1843"
  • "Mapping an empire : the geographical construction of British India : 1765-1843"