Islanded

How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? This title explores how the British organized the process of "islanding," aiming to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography.

• | By (Author): Sujit Sivasundaram (Author)
• | Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 05, 2013
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 022603822X
• | ISBN-13: 9780226038223